There have been a couple of recent CDs on this. It depends upon the circumstances of the case.
If, as appears to be the case here, the LA made a decision to pay the LL but when attempting to make that payment, due to a system error or human error, the payment was made to the claimant in error then they can, and should, pay the landlord for the same period.
If, however, the LA initially made the decision to pay the claimant, made a payment to them and have now accepted that the decision was wrong and revised it to pay the landlord then there is no provision to pay the LL again for the same period.
So in précis - Cock up when making the payment - can pay again for same period.
- Accepting earlier decision was wrong, can't.
Jeff
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