{"id":72034,"date":"2016-07-06T16:30:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T16:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=0660858db50dba6ebc355cfd0c6a63d3"},"modified":"2016-07-06T16:30:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T16:30:04","slug":"news-story-crime-news-avoiding-errors-in-claims-for-crime-lower-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=72034","title":{"rendered":"News story: Crime news: avoiding errors in claims for crime lower work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Below are some common errors that are made when providers submit claims for crime lower work.<\/p>\n

Avoiding these errors will prevent the risk of money being recovered and of possible sanctions under the contract.<\/p>\n

Investigations<\/h3>\n

Incorrectly claiming for:<\/p>\n

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  1. multiple police station attendance for the same client (code INVCs)<\/li>\n
  2. advice and assistance away from the police station along with police station attendance for the same matter (code INVA and INVC)<\/li>\n
  3. police station telephone advice along with police station attendance for the same matter (code INVB and INVC)<\/li>\n
  4. mileage from another office or that of an agent \u2013 the maximum fee principle<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Proceedings<\/h3>\n
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    1. claiming for the wrong category of work<\/li>\n
    2. using the incorrect fee rates on claims<\/li>\n
    3. claiming a higher standard fee when this is not supported by work evidenced on file<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Court duty claims<\/h3>\n

      This is for travel and expenses claimed on business days in excess of eight hours and includes incorrectly claiming for:<\/p>\n

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      1. mileage from another office or that of an agent \u2013 the maximum fee principle<\/li>\n
      2. fees using old rates when new rates should be used<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Prison law<\/h3>\n

        It is important that the client\u2019s eligibility is clear. Errors include:<\/p>\n

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        1. multiple claims made incorrectly on sentence cases<\/li>\n
        2. examples where Parole Board and discipline cases are not in scope<\/li>\n
        3. claiming a higher standard fee when this is not supported by work evidenced on file<\/li>\n
        4. profile of claims not in line with expectations following the scope changes introduced in Dec 2013 which we expected to result in a decrease in prison law claims<\/li>\n
        5. need for evidence on file that the Parole Board has power to release<\/li>\n
        6. need for evidence on file that a disciplinary matter was held before an Independent Adjudicator<\/li>\n
        7. sometimes not clear why matter conducted under prison law rather than Associated Civil Work<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Appeals and reviews<\/h3>\n

          It is important that the client\u2019s eligibility is clear. Errors include:<\/p>\n

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          1. insufficient evidence to demonstrate \u2018sufficient benefit\u2019 test met<\/li>\n
          2. unusual claiming activity after the Legal Aid Transformation changes<\/li>\n
          3. travel claimed not adequately supported on file<\/li>\n
          4. insufficient evidence on file to justify costs claimed<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Further information<\/h3>\n

            Legal Aid Agency audits<\/a> \u2013 for more on how to prevent audit issues and to download \u2018LAA controlled work audit trends\u2019 for common errors<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            Checklist of errors to help you avoid the pitfalls of inaccurate claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}