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Decision details

1st Quarter Finance, Performance and Risk Monitoring Report 2022/23

Decision Maker: Executive

Decision status: For Determination

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

To write-off the irrecoverable Housing Benefits overpayment (£34,124) listed at Appendix 5 to the report.

Decision:

That the irrecoverable Housing Benefits overpayment (£34,124), listed at Appendix 5 to the report, be written off.

Reasons for the decision:

The Executive considered the 1^st Quarter Finance, Performance and Risk Monitoring Report 2022/23. As part of its consideration of the report, the Executive was asked to write-off the irrecoverable Housing Benefits overpayment (£34,124) listed at Appendix 5 as all reasonable debt recovery has taken place.

Consultation Results and Previous Committee Feedback

This issue was considered by the Corporate Services Policy Advisory Committee on 12 October 2022 as part of the 1^st Quarter Finance, Performance and Risk Monitoring Report 2022/23, and the Committee supported the recommendation to write off the debt.

Alternative options considered:

That further action be taken to recover the Housing Benefits overpayment (£34,124) listed at Appendix 5 to the report. However, this would not be appropriate as it is considered that all reasonable debt recovery has taken place.

Contact: Adrian Lovegrove, Head of Finance Email: adrianlovegrove@maidstone.gov.uk.

Report author: Adrian Lovegrove

Publication date: 28/10/2022

Date of decision: 26/10/2022

Decided: 26/10/2022 - Executive

Effective from: 05/11/2022

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