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Recoveries
Overview: November 19, 2012
Effective: November 19, 2012
The Employment and Assistance Act and the Employment and Assistance for Persons with Disabilities Act authorize the ministry to recover debts and certain types of assistance issued to or on behalf of clients.
Assistance issued while awaiting income from another agency may be recovered through an assignment or consent to deduct future income from the other agency.
Debt may be incurred in any of the following circumstances:
- assistance is issued where there is no eligibility (overpayments)
- repayable supplements are issued
- repayable hardship assistance is issued
The ministry records and notifies clients of debt in any of the following ways:
- notification of overpayment
- a promise to repay agreement
- a repayment agreement
The ministry recovers debt in any of the following ways:
- voluntary payments from current or former recipients of assistance
- applying a repayment amount to assistance issued to clients
- collection action
- court action
Employment and Assistance Workers and Investigative Officers must fully explain the procedures that are authorized under the Employment and Assistance Act and the Employment and Assistance for Persons with Disabilities Act in specific situations for recovering assistance.
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