31/05/20 to 06/06/20

More new ctr claims received via new claims for UC. We have also been dealing with a batch of Housing Benefit Matching Service (HBMS) notifications from the DWP. Some of these relate to self-employed claimants who we had already identified as requiring a review. We are writing to self-employed claimants to potentially reassess as their income & circumstances might have changed since the lockdown. We can reassess on reduced income. Also many of them might have received the grant payment from the Govt aimed at those whose business has been adversely impacted by Covid-19. The grant payment has to be taken account of and their self-employed income reassessed.

Nothing in particular that was new or out of the ordinary this week. The review of self-employed cases affected by Covid-19 once they start to come back will be totally new and, hopefully, a one-off for 2020 only.

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