Senior Assessor Full Time Temporary

Senior Assessor needed in Newton Abbot paying £11.05 per hr PAYE Ref:5185532

This role is working full time hours on a temporary basis

Responsibilities:

• Promptly and accurately assessing and maintaining awards in respect of Housing Benefits, Council Tax Reduction and Discretionary Housing Payments and Council Tax Discretionary Discount awards in accordance with current benefit legislation, policies and procedures.
• Dealing with complex cases to include Self Employed, Students, Persons’ from Abroad and specified accommodation.
• Appropriately accessing and using all available internal and external data systems in order to determine a customers’ entitlements
• Assist with the processing of any work arising from National Fraud Initiatives, Department for Work and Pensions data sharing initiatives, for example ATLAS, HBAA, VEP, HBMS, NFI

Ideally candidates will have:

• Sound knowledge of Housing Benefit and Council Tax Reduction legislation.
• IT systems such as Microsoft Office, processing and document management systems.
• Data Protection legislation

 If you are interested in the role, please email your CV to verity@essentialemploy.co.uk quoting the reference number.

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