DWP Overpayment Recovery Guide

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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

I would be grateful if you would please provide the most recent version of the DWP's
Overpayment Recovery Guide for Employment Support Allowance or similar document if it has been renamed. This gives
decision makers guidance on how to deal with recovery of benefit overpayments.
Please also confirm whether there have been any changes to the guidance as a result of
the introduction of Mandatory Reconsiderations and give details if there are any.

Yours faithfully,

Ms Taylor

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J Roberts left an annotation ()

Here is a recent decision (JSA) concerning an overpayment related to deprivation of capital:

https://www.bailii.org/nie/cases/NISSCSC...

And one related to ESA that 'concerns recoverability of overpaid benefit and the effect of disclosure of a material fact in circumstances where the Department declined to accept more detailed information':

https://www.bailii.org/nie/cases/NISSCSC...