Blackpool council chiefs write off £250k of uncollected payments including unpaid council tax and overpaid benefits
Town hall finance chiefs have written off around £250,000 of debt in the latest round of uncollected payments to the council.
This year’s total also include £84,000 in housing benefit overpayments, £45,000 due to bankruptcy, £17,000 of unrecoverable social care and benefits payments and £11,000 of unpaid council tax. Provision for bad debt is made by the council as part of a collection regimes and debts are only written off when there is no chance of recovering the money.
While the council says it is good practice to write off legitimate debt when there is no prospect of receiving the money, a report setting out the amount owed says “any debt written off can be reinstated at a later date should there be an unforeseen opportunity to recover part or all of the debt.”
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