Council threatens to take single mum to court over THREE PENCE housing benefit overpayment

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Wigan council earlier this month. If she failed to repay the sum within seven days, the authority warned they would take 'further action to recover the debt'.Possible courses of action included instructing her employer to take the money from her earnings, 'a seizure of assets', or the matter being taken to court.Earlier this year, Ms Collins was ordered to repay more than £260 in housing benefits which she had been overpaid due to working extra hours.After making two separate payments of £71.70 and £90.73, she agreed to pay the remaining sum in £10 weekly instalments.

Ms Collins, from Leigh, says the council informed her last month that her debt had been cleared. Believing the matter resolved, she says she was 'amazed' to later be told she.