Government Loses Benefits Overpayment To Bankrupt
R (Balding) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2007] EWHC 759 (Admin)
QBD
3 April 2007
Weekly Law Notes Summary
Where an individual was liable to repay overpaid social security benefit under the Social Security Administration Act 1992 this was counted as a liability to pay money under an enactment for the purposes of s 382(4) of the Insolvency Act 1986 and was a bankruptcy debt. Discharge of the bankrupt released him from liability for recovery of the overpaid benefit.