Direct Earnings Attachments
Received: 18 August 2025
Please provide the following information:1. The total number of Direct Earnings Attachments (DEAs) issued by Barnet Council for the recovery of Housing Benefit overpayments for each year from 2018 to date.2. Whether Barnet Council holds any information about the protected characteristics (for example: ethnicity, disability, sex, age) of individuals who have been subject to a DEA.3. If such information is held, please provide a breakdown of DEA recipients by protected characteristic for the same period.4. The number of Housing Benefit Overpayment Notices issued in 2018, the number of those notices issued that have been written off, when they were written off and the reasons for the write off.
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