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Undisclosed Partners: Recovery of Overpayments from 18 January 2010 - Claim is incorrect form the outset and there is a penalty
Where you learn that a claim was made in the incorrect capacity from the outset and the behaviour that led to the error is failure to take reasonable care, see CCM10730 or serious error, see CCM10740 you will be considering charging a penalty. However, you can still consider remitting part of the overpayment where:
- A new correct claim has now been made and the award made and
- The start date for the original award is prior to the date for which the new claim is backdated
You will not be able to calculate the proposed penalty until you have calculated any notional entitlement so you need to follow the steps below.
Step 1
- Advise the customer of the date from which the award will be terminated and that any tax credits paid since that date will be overpaid
- Explain that they should now make a new claim in the correct capacity and advise them that if they do so you might be able to waive part of the overpayment
- Issue the closure letter, amend the award and BF your case for 30 days
Step 2
- During the BF period you should check to see if the new claim has been made and processed
- If the new claim it is not made within this period you can continue to work your case without any notional entitlement following the guidance in Chapters 4 or 16 in this manual. If before you have obtained a letter of offer to cover the overpayment and penalty, the customer then gets in touch to say they have now got their new award you will need to follow from step 3 below
- If the new claim is held and an award has been made see step 3
Step 3
- Use the SEES calculator to calculate the notional entitlement, see CCM15720
- Calculate the proposed penalty based on the net over-claim. For example, if the over-claim was £5,600 but the notional entitlement is £1,100 the penalty will be based on a new over-claim of £4,500
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Step 4
- Complete the 94NTC to show the net amount of any overpayments to be recovered and the proposed penalty. If the error relates to only the current year the overpayment is not included on the 94NTC
- You will need to wait until the full 30 day BF period has expired to allow the full appeal period has expired to allow the full appeal period and then continue to work the case from the ‘settlement proposals’ stage as shown in Chapters 4 or 16 of this manual
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