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Paragraph 6 Prescribed particulars relating to claims for Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit subsidy for the relevant year

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The total number and amounts of overpayments of housing benefit in respect of rent rebates, rent allowances, community charge rebates or of excess community charge benefits, which are identified in the relevant year and are in consequence of—

(a)

official errors by the Department of Social Security;

(b)

official errors by the authority claiming subsidy;

(c)

the disclosure of changes of circumstances affecting awards of benefit paid or credited in advance where the awards are made in the two benefit weeks following the date of the disclosure;

(d)

the crediting of rebates in advance of entitlement other than awards to which sub-paragraph (c) refers;

(e)

errors or fraud by claimants;

(f)

duplicate payments following non-receipt, loss or theft of benefit where the original instrument of payment has been encashed.