Some Housing Benefit claimants may be due Special Payment from DWP following reassessment exercise
Earlier this year, the Department for Work and Pensions identified 22,500 Housing Benefit claimants affected by the Employment and Support Allowance underpayment and Incapacity Benefit reassessment corrective exercise. Local authorities began checking if arrears were due for those claimants between 2011 and 2019.
DWP Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Claire Coutinho MP, responded: “As part of the IB to ESA reassessment LEAP exercise the Department reviewed around 600,000 cases and made 118,000 arrears payments amounting to over £600m.” “Where an individual feels they may be eligible for a Special Payment, they can contact the Department and set out their reasons. All requests received will be considered on a case-by-case basis.”
The aim is to put people back into the financial position they would have been in had the error not happened.
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