NSP v Stoke-On-Trent City Council and AT (HB): UTAA 3 Nov 2020

Housing Benefit – Recovery of overpayments-Whether a claimant is automatically a respondent to an appeal by a landlord against a decision to recover an overpayment. Housing Benefit – Recovery of overpayments – Circumstances in which an overpayment of HB is recoverable from someone other than the person to whom the original payment was made. Housing Benefit – Recovery of overpayments – Whether the right of appeal granted to a person from whom an overpayment of HB has been determined to be recoverable is limited in scope – R(H) 3/04 and R(H) 6/06 followed. Tribunal procedure and practice (including Upper Tribunal)-Evidence-Whether the First-tier Tribunal has power to exclude relevant evidence that is confidential to a non-party.

Citations:

[2020] UKUT 311 (AAC)

Links:

Bailii

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Benefits

Updated: 12 May 2022; Ref: scu.656590