LWRCA Back payment query

charlotte84
charlotte84 Community member Posts: 96 Contributor
in Universal Credit (UC)
Hi all I wonder if anyone can help, a family member has recently been awarded Lwrca they’ve had the letter stating it but it also states that if they owe the dwp any money that this can be recovered using the back payment that there entitled to. Surely this can’t be fair.? Thank you 

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  • bg844
    bg844 Community member Posts: 3,883 Championing
    Unfortunately it is correct. Positive to that is the overpayment won’t take as long to recover.
  • charlotte84
    charlotte84 Community member Posts: 96 Contributor
    @bg844 So what exactly do they recover x
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Community member Posts: 59,054 Championing
    charlotte84 said:
    @bg844 So what exactly do they recover x

    I'm not sure what you mean by that? People can owe DWP money for various reasons. If a claimant owes money to DWP then they can take that money that you owe from any money that DWP owe you. We've had several members here in the past that have had money taken from backpay to pay back an overpayment.
  • charlotte84
    charlotte84 Community member Posts: 96 Contributor
    @poppy123456 So do they just choose who they want to take money off randomly? Or do they take it off everyone who owes the dwp. 
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Community member Posts: 59,054 Championing
    No, they don’t just “choose randomly” not everyone owes DWP money. Those that do owe it, if there’s backdated money owed to you then DWP can recover the overpayment in full from the money they owe you. 
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Community member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    The dwp are only trying to recover debts 

    How can they owe someone backdated money when that person owes them money ? 

    When anyone is awarded any back pay they check with debt management if any loans or overpayment exist its not just a random selection  

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