7/8/20 to 13/8/20

The review of self-employed cases affected by the Covid-19 outbreak cropped up again.

An HBINFO email dated 12/08/20 mentioned that some authorities had ended up creating overpayments but the concensus was that this was incorrect. One post referred to the small business grant & stated this should be treated as capital. Our local Council Tax Reduction scheme has a capital limit of £8,000 so a grant of £10,000 could potentially end entitlement for a claimant. I trawled through the cases I had dealt with and found that two of may cases had received grants of £10,000 each in April or May. I discussed this scenario with our Appeals Officer. We agreed that the payments amounted to a bail-out or emergency help and as such were not intended to cause someone to be overpaid benefit. The amounts received should be classed as business income & therefore included in the claimants 2020/21 accounts. I added diary entries for my two cases to check that this is done.

Nothing else out of the ordinary as work consisted of routine changes of address ; Universal Credit award updates ; a couple of wage updates via HMRC and a couple of new claims at a homeless hostel.

Comments

  1. Sandeep6 September 2020 at 07:05

    That's correct, the payments should be treated as income not capital. Good decision.

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