Housing Benefit overpayments

How Housing Benefit overpayments happen and how you can repay them.

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Overview

Housing Benefit overpayments happens when we have paid you (or someone else on your behalf) benefit which you are not entitled to. This might be because:

  • you may have provided the council with incorrect information
  • you may not have told us about a change in your circumstances
  • we may not have assessed your claim correctly
  • we may have been late acting on your information