Challenging the recovery of benefit overpayments and hardship payments webinar

Challenging the recovery of benefit overpayments and hardship payments

DATE: 17 July 2024, 10:00-12:00

This webinar will be live and recorded  and we will share the recording with attendees afterwards. 

This session will explain the DWP’s current policy on waiving recovery of benefit overpayments, the impact that overpayment recovery has on claimant benefit awards and the steps that individuals can take to challenge this recovery, including a discussion on preparing effective waiver requests and the availability of judicial review as a remedy if a waiver request is refused. 

We’ll also look at PLP’s research on the impact and use of deductions by the DWP, as well as the government’s amendment on the remuneration regulations for payment of Welfare Benefits Legal Help work as of 1 April 2023. 

Speakers:

• Chair: Caroline Selman, Public Law Project 
• Niamh Grahame, Public Law Project
• Emma Vincent Miller, Osbornes Law
• William Ford, Osbornes Law
• Jagna Olejniczak, Citizens Advice