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Housing Benefit Guidance Manual: Amendment 17 December 2008

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Chapter C6 - Reconsidering, revising and superseding decisions

Contents

• 6.00 - About this chapter
• 6.50 - Overview
  • 6.50 - The decision
    • 6.60 - Claimant queries the decision or asks for written statement of reasons
    • 6.70 - Claimant accepts decision
    • 6.80 - Claimant still does not accept decision
  • 6.100 - Reconsideration process
    • 6.110 - Decision revised to the claimant’s advantage
    • 6.120 - Decision not revised
    • 6.130 - Decision revised to claimant’s disadvantage
  • 6.150 - Claimant appeals against decision
    • 6.160 - Decision changed to claimant’s disadvantage
  • 6.180 - Tribunal hearings
    • 6.190 - Action on receipt of tribunal decision
• 6.200 - Challenged decisions
  • 6.220 - Which decisions can be challenged?
  • 6.230 - What constitutes a challenge?
    • 6.240 - Changes reported following notification of a decision
    • 6.250 - DM rejects claimant’s contention or claimant challenges decision more than a month after notification
    • 6.260 - How decisions are challenged
  • 6.270 - Who reconsiders these decisions?
  • 6.280 - How are relevant decisions changed?
  • 6.300 - Revision following an appeal
  • 6.310 - Correction of accidental errors
    • 6.320 - What is an accidental error?
    • 6.330 - How to correct accidental errors
  • 6.340 - Time limits for challenges
    • 6.350 - Extending the revision time limit
    • 6.360 - Late applications for revision of decision
      • 6.362 - Conditions for a late application to be accepted
    • 6.370 - Revision instigated by the DM
    • 6.380 - Decision revised
• 6.390 - Revising decisions challenged within a month of notification
  • 6.400 - What to consider when revising a decision
  • 6.410 - HB/CTB entitlement and relevant benefit
• 6.450 - Handling cases when decisions are challenged
  • 6.450 - More evidence or information needed
  • 6.470 - What happens when decision is not revised
  • 6.490 - What happens when decision is revised
  • 6.500 - Decisions involving issues arising on appeal in other cases
  • 6.510 - Decisions that can be revised at any time
    • 6.520 - Revision for official error
      • 6.521 - Meaning of official error
    • 6.530 - Revision for error of fact
    • 6.540 - Revisions as a consequence of a Rent Officer’s redetermination
    • 6.550 - Decisions with no appeal rights
    • 6.560 - Effective date of revised decision
• 6.600 - Supersession
  • 6.610 - Applications for supersession
    • 6.620 - Communications that are not applications
    • 6.630 - Communications that are applications
  • 6.640 - Superseding decisions
    • 6.640 - Superseding a Decision Maker’s decision
    • 6.650 - Superseding a tribunal or Commissioner’s decision
  • 6.660 - Change of circumstances
    • 6.670 - What is a relevant change of circumstance
    • 6.680 - When is a change not a relevant change?
    • 6.690 - When a change has the potential to be relevant
    • 6.700 - Can a change in law be a relevant change of circumstances?
    • 6.710 - Can a decision be superseded because of a future change of circumstances?
    • 6.720 - How a change should be notified
    • 6.730 - Additional evidence/information needed for decision to be superseded
  • 6.740 - How the change is taken into account
  • 6.750 - What happens when a decision is superseded
• 6.770 - Effective dates
  • 6.770 - Changes of circumstances
  • 6.780 - Late report of change of circumstances - decision advantageous to the claimant
  • 6.790 - Changes in legislation
  • 6.800 - Effective dates of other superseding decisions
  • 6.810 - Late notification of an advantageous change of circumstances
  • 6.830 - How the decision is notified
  • 6.850 - Error of law
    • 6.860 - Definition of error of law
  • 6.870 - Material fact
    • 6.880 - Ignorance of a material fact
    • 6.890 - Mistake as to a material fact
  • 6.900 - Effective dates
    • 6.900 - Reinterpretation of the law
    • 6.910 - The date of the relevant decision
  • 6.920 - European Court of Justice
• 6.930 - Rent penalty notices and no rent payable orders (Scotland)
  • 6.930 - Introduction
  • 6.932 - Appeal made against a notice or order and appeal is won
  • 6.935 - Effect on HB claim

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