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Overpayments can occur if your entitlement to Housing Benefit reduces or ceases following a change in your circumstances.

If you have received benefit since the date of a change in your circumstances, either in the form of a cheque to yourself or your landlord, or as a credit to your rent account, you may have been overpaid.

If you have been overpaid and if the overpayment is deemed recoverable, you and/or your landlord will be advised of the amount of overpaid benefit, the reason for it, the dates that it covers and how we propose to recover it. You will also be given your appeal rights.

Failure to pay an overpayment could result in court action; interest and costs will be added to the amount that you already owe