Universal Credit stopped due to assets in excess of £16K
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
During the past 12 month period how many people who applied for Universal Credit had their application refused because it transpired that they had savings in excess of £16,000 which was not declared on their application form? Did any of the claimants face prosecution if their application was deemed to be fraudulent?
During the past 12 month period how many people who had successfully claimed Universal Credit and had received one or more payments, subsequently had their Universal Credit stopped as it transpired that they had not declared savings they held in excess of £16,000 How many of the people who had received money on false pretences paid all the money back which they were not entitled to? How many people were prosecuted as their claim for UC was deemed to be fraudulent?
Yours faithfully,
Amanda Hudson
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Dear Amanda Hudson,
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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
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I am writing to request an internal review of Department for Work and Pensions's handling of my FOI request 'Universal Credit stopped due to assets in excess of £16K'.
Thank you for your response of 16th September.
I believe that you have misused Section 12(2) of the Freedom of Information Act.
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Amanda Hudson
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Dear Amanda Hudson,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 17th
October.
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DWP Central FoI Team
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Department for Work and Pensions's handling of my FOI request 'Universal Credit stopped due to assets in excess of £16K'.
Please address the original FOI request using a random sample of claims that were made but not subsequently put into payment due to the claimant holding in excess of £16,000 (please supply date that claim was made) until the limit of £600 has been used up. Based on the figures you have supplied you should be able to provide information regarding 96 cases.
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Yours faithfully,
Amanda Hudson
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Dear Amanda Hudson,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 13th
November.
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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Department for Work and Pensions's handling of my FOI request 'Universal Credit stopped due to assets in excess of £16K'.
I made no request to the Department to create information it does not hold.
I did not ask for a statistically representative sample, but the last 96 claims.
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Amanda Hudson
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Dear Amanda Hudson,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 10th
December.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Department for Work and Pensions's handling of my FOI request 'Universal Credit stopped due to assets in excess of £16K'.
You are playing with semantics.
“Did any of the claimants face prosecution if their application was deemed to be fraudulent?”
Why is this question reliant on an answer to the first part, above, we are unable to answer.
I shall reword question: How many UC applicants in the past 12 month period faced prosecution if it was subsequently discovered that they held assets in excess of 16K.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/u...
Yours faithfully,
Amanda Hudson
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Dear Amanda Hudson,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 4th
January.
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DWP Central FoI Team
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