Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Executive Councillor (Governance & Corporate Service)

The report provides details of outstanding debts with a value of over £10K which the recovery team considers to be irrecoverable.

The Executive is asked to approve:-

•        The write off of three Housing Benefit overpayments with a total value of £57,901.11

•        The write off of one sundry debt value £10,612.50

•        The write off of six non-domestic rates debts total value £114,295.82

(NOTE: the appendix contains information ‘not for publication’ that has been circulated to executive councillors only)

Officer contact: Alison Blount, 0161 474 5107, Alison.blount@stockport.gov.uk

The Executive Councillor (Governance & Corporate Services) submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) inviting the Executive Meeting to consider writing-off outstanding debts to the Council with a value of over £10K which were considered to be irrecoverable.

(NOTE: the report included information ‘Not for Publication’ contained within its appendix that had been circulated to executive councillors only)

RESOLVED – That the following debts be written off as irrecoverable:-

·         Housing Benefit overpayment of £14,043.27 as the debtor has absconded and cannot be traced;

·         Housing Benefit overpayment of £18,695.00 as the debtor has absconded and in addition the paperwork necessary for further County Court action is no longer available due to the passage of time;

·         Housing Benefit overpayment of £25,162.84 as the company has been dissolved;

·         outstanding sundry debt of £10,612.50 as the liable organisation no longer exists;

·         Non Domestic Rates debt of £25,134.45 as the debtor has absconded and cannot be traced;

·         Non Domestic Rates debt of £15,988.41 as the debtor has absconded and cannot be traced;

·         Non Domestic Rates of £29,455.24 as the debtor has absconded and cannot be traced;

·         Non Domestic Rates of £33,228.39 as the debtor has absconded and cannot be traced;

·         Non Domestic Rates of £10,489.33 as the debtor has absconded and cannot be traced; and

·         Non Domestic Rates of £12,334.13 as the debtor has absconded and cannot be traced.