This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 60)
The County Council makes the following statement
The central objective of the campaign is to review households within Lancashire who are claiming sol...
The review found some breaches of F of I procedures, but states that unless the question is narrowed it would cost too much to dig out all the informat...
I give up on this, which may be the result of the NFI changing its email address.
The fact that it is actively encouraging maladministration and brea...
Please find attached our response to your request.
Home Office
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Communications via th...
Mr Neill, according to this response, wrote to the Guardian Money pages, which featured yet another of these messes in the consumer section.
His sum...
It is a serious matter that Lambeth Council is failing to observe council tax law. In asserting that Section 11 consists of two 'discounts' it is flyi...
It is now clear that the Data Protection people will not intervene in any dispute about incorrect information or about any information being supplied i...
The fact that the council false believes (or so it would appear) that there is no entitlement to a non existent 'single person discount' if more than o...
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
By law under all circumstances you should have responded by now.
I a...
The Council says
The Council is obliged under
Audit Commission regulations to look into all cases referred to it as a mismatch in data and see how t...
Dear Wilson-Copp, Jenny,
Does the guidance you refer to come in the Single Person Discount Roll Out Guidelines?
Yours sincerely,
K Hodgkinson
Dear Jeff Bright,
Unfortunately, your response contains an appalling legal error. The NFI council tax electoral register matches fall into two catego...
This is relevant and on the Internet somewhere else
So, just how do fishing trips in search of Section 11 discount fraud work?
We are used to watch...
Bolton Borough Council has on its web site a statement that NFI data matches show inconsistencies that require investigation but knows very well that t...
So I do hope that at least some electors will challenge their accounts and complain to their auditors. At least this will force the issues out into th...
Dear K Hodgkinson
Having liaised with Barnsley Council's Benefits & Taxation Division I can now confirm that guidance notes are provided by the Audit...
Dear Sir/Madam,
I acknowledge your request for information received at this office on 9th February, 2011.
This request has been considered as a reque...
It isn't certain, but it does seem as if councils using CAPITA to assess and collect council tax are systematically getting it wrong. If this is the c...
Dear Sir or Madam
Freedom of Information Act 2000 *** Request for Information
Further to your request for information received on 12 October 2010,...
Dear Sir/Madam
Please see attached.
Regards.
Linda Ashmore | Democratic Services and FOI Officer
Amber Valley Borough Council
Town Hall, Riple...
Dear Mogg, Trevor,
I would like an internal review of this. I asked for information relating to the right of appeal against an assumption that a per...
It would appear from this response that the Audit Commission and not the council decides whether to classify people as 'frauds' and that there is absol...
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I am writing to request an internal review of Adur District Council's...
Please find attached response to your request under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.
Lynne Saunders
PA to Trevor Roff
Director of Finance...
Dear Mr Hopkinson,
Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Request for Information
I refer to your e-mail received 12th October 2010 requesting
informa...
This person's 205 annotations
The County Council makes the following statement
The central objective of the campaign is to review households within Lancashire who are claiming sol...
Preston City Council Shared Benefits and Revenues Services is run by Adrian Robinson who is stated in the local papers to have stated that Council Tax...
Your requests were clear enough. At no point did you say anything about borrowing money from One Connect.
This council has already 'outsourced' some of its functions to a joint body set up between it and Lancaster and run from Lancaster, namely benefits an...
Interesting to note that Alison Morris is aware that councils must obey certain regulations.
According to Elmbridge Council, roughly half of the 'hits' sent to them by the Audit Commission relate to entitled voters who are not in terms of counc...
As it happens the Audit Commission has been advising that a penalty can be issued if THEY suspect that additional adults are liable. Given the number...
This council records certain adults as receiving a 'disregard discount' allowance between certain dates. As there is no such thing, this would appear...
Interesting the number of refusals or failures from this council that have been reversed that appear on this site. In once case somebody chipped in and...
One connect run the benefits and revenue service for West Lancashire Borough Council. Judging from the web site of the council they are incompetent an...
See
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-24866009
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-24297463
http://www.prestoncitizen....
The Audit Commission has held meetings with SOLACE. For example it held meetings with them over its data matching in respect of so called single perso...
If the person falls to be disregarded there would be an additional reduction, or exemption.
I find it somewhat strange that the owner of a property does not know the names of his tenants, as it is unusual to enter into a legal agreement with p...
The rules about who is liable in law to pay council tax are set out here
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/14/part/I/chapter/I/crossheading/li...
I don't know where Peter Reilly copied and pasted his information from, but he hasn't chosen a good source.
It is false to state that full council tax...
The review found some breaches of F of I procedures, but states that unless the question is narrowed it would cost too much to dig out all the informat...
The DCLG has been approached and as a matter of fact it wrote to the Audit Commission and to the Guardian pointing out the facts of council tax discoun...
I think that it may be helpful to check other documents from Oxford City Council.
I was alarmed to find that its web site says this:
Remember - It...
In addition to duties under F of I councils have a duty to provide clear and accurate information, including information about council tax discounts....
For those of you living in council areas where the council provides misleading or false information about council tax discounts, which appears to inclu...
I give up on this, which may be the result of the NFI changing its email address.
The fact that it is actively encouraging maladministration and brea...
They say
In relation to points a) and b) of your request, the National Fraud Authority
does not hold information, including briefings on the law, r...
The NFA's email address appears to keep changing.
This may explain the delay in responding.
Mr Neill, according to this response, wrote to the Guardian Money pages, which featured yet another of these messes in the consumer section.
His sum...