I wonder if the Son or Social Services might be in the firing line for recovery?
But yes, you cant simply take overpaid HB from a Rent Account and put the claimant into arrears because its overpaid HB NOT rent arrears.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and—and in short you are for ever floored.
Wilkins Micawber, Ch12 David Copperfield
