Issue - meetings

Overpayments Update - item deferred from Feb mtg, see minutes

Meeting: 29/03/2012 - Audit Board (this committee has been combined with the Audit, Standards & Governance Committee and no longer meets) (Item 37)

Minutes:

Consideration was giving to a report as requested by Members during its meeting held on 15th December 2011.

The Executive Director, Finance and Corporate Resources presented the report and in doing so drew Members attention to page 80 of the report and the following amendments:

§ Total overpayments raised during the year, to read Total overpayments to the end of March 2011.

§ % of overpayments recovered as a % of total overpayments outstanding – Redditch – to read 48% and not 28% as shown.

Members were informed that an overpayments officer was now in place whose sole role was to look at overpayments. Members agreed that in order to obtain an understanding of the processes and procedures with regard to the Overpayment Recovery policy and Write off procedures, officers be tasked to provide the following information to the next meeting of the Audit Board:

§ Case Studies

§ Fraudulent Claims

§ Overpayment Write off figures

§ Overpayment Write off – comparison with other authorities

RESOLVED that, subject to future additional information as referred to in the preamble above, the Overpayments Update be approved.