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deductions of overpayments from pension credit
asked on behalf of a colleague:
Client and his wife are having money deducted from their pension credit for a historic overpayment of income support. The original overpayment decision was made in April 1999 (!) under s. 71 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992.
Now, i know the rules have changed in UC so they can take more anytime.
Is that the same for PC? given the date of the original decision i should have thought it was a time barred overpayment long before PC was invented?
Are there regs allowing this, and if some kind soul can point us to them be grateful!
Debts only become time-barred by the Limitation Act for the purposes of court action, not for self-help actions [edit: or so I guess was the intention].
As per this old thread, the nail in the coffin for contrary arguments in social security law was s108 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.
[ Edited: 28 Nov 2018 at 01:08 am by Jon (CANY) ]thank you
you were up late!
I need to get out more 😊