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Housing Benefit and Council Tax Reduction Risk Based Verification Policy

Meeting: 13/03/2019 - Accounts, Audit and Risk Committee (Item 65)

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Report of the Executive Director: Finance and Governance (Interim)

 

 

Purpose of report

 

To provide members of this Committee with an update on the Risk Based Verification (RBV) module which was agreed by members of the Accounts Audit and Risk Committee in June 2017 and was introduced for Housing Benefit and Council Tax Reduction new claims from November 2017, and to seek approval for some minor changes to the RBV policy.

 

Recommendations

            

The meeting is recommended:

 

1.1       To note the contents of this report.

 

1.2       To approve changes to the RBV policy for 2019-2020

Additional documents:

Decision:

Resolved

 

(1)          That the contents of the report be noted.

 

(2)          That the changes to the RBV policy for 2019-2020 be approved

Minutes:

The Executive Director: Finance and Governance (Interim) submitted a report to provide members of this Committee with an update on the Risk Based Verification (RBV) module which was agreed by members of the Accounts Audit and Risk Committee in June 2017 and was introduced for Housing Benefit and Council Tax Reduction new claims from November 2017, and to seek approval for some minor changes to the RBV policy.

 

Resolved

 

(1)          That the contents of the report be noted.

 

(2)          That the changes to the RBV policy for 2019-2020 be approved