Suspended Overpayments Work List – Notional Offset (Info)

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For specific exceptional items detailed on the ’Suspended Overpayments’ Work List we will perform a notional offset against the overpayment

What this means is that we will calculate a rate of payment that equates to

• What a claimant would have received if they had claimed Income Support (IS) or Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) for the period between their effective date of change (in relation to their working hours dropping below sixteen)

And

• The date they reported the change. This is the amount remitted from the overpayment

Claimant stops work on 01/09/2006 and reports this change to tax credits on 20/09/2006. Because this change has been reported late the system will have continued to pay for the period from 02/09/2006 to 20/09/2006. We will calculate the number of days between the two dates as 19 and multiply this by the daily rate of the offset to arrive at a figure to remit. We will then remit this from the overpayment. We will only remit up to the value of the overpayment, and never over this amount. This is called a notional offset