Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Steve Webb (Liberal Democrat), on Wednesday, 13 December 2000, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 42 members in total.

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RECOVERY OF HOUSING BENEFIT FROM LANDLORDS

That this House welcomes the Government's intention to replace the current system of internal reviews of housing benefit decisions by individual local authorities with a new, more robust, independent appeal mechanism; notes that local authorities will retain the right to reclaim benefit overpayments from third parties, such as landlords, where payments are made directly; is concerned, however, that the practice of allowing these third parties to appeal such decisions will be excluded from the new procedure; calls on the Government to recognise that it is unjust to demand repayment of fraudulently claimed or incorrectly paid benefits direct from landlords, who are unable to know this is taking place, without a right of appeal and asks that such a right be included in regulations when they are laid before the House.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

111 

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Abuse Appeals Housing benefit Landlords Repayments

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk