Decision details
Housing Benefit Write off Sept 2021
Decision Maker: Chief Finance Officer
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
Financial regulation 12.14 states:
Any debt due to the Council may only be written-off with the
authorisation of
the Executive except, insofar as an individual debt does not exceed
£10,000,
the initial authority may be given by the Chief Finance Officer who
shall be
required to publish periodically reports of the debts that have
been written off
in accordance with the delegated authority.
Debts over £10,000 are reported to the Executive at least
annually in the Statement of Accounts and any other delegated
reports as.
The Chief Finance officer is exercising this delegated authority
and the Revenues, Benefits & Customer Services Business Manager
is exercising an authority delegated to him by the CFO for debts up
to £5,000.
Decision:
To Write off Housing Benefit overpayments for
the month of September 2021
Reasons for the decision:
The debts are considered uncolletable, all
efforts to recover these debts have been pursued.
Alternative options considered:
Option 1 -
Option 2 -
Option 3 -
Declarations: None
Contact: David Ripley, Revenues, Benefits and Customer Services Manager Email: david.ripley@woking.gov.uk Email: david.ripley@woking.gov.uk.
Publication date: 06/10/2021
Date of decision: 06/10/2021
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