There is a forthcoming court case involving a landlord and tenant. The
landlord has written to our Housing Benefit section stating that the
tenant is overdue with his rent. The landlord has also said that he
believes the tenant is falsely claiming Housing Benefit for a number of
reasons that are stated in the letter. All these facts have been entered
on the notepad section of the Benefit system. The tenant has made a
Subject access request. The landlord has already sent him a copy of the
part of the letter relating to the overdue rent, but not the Benefit fraud.
My question is, do we disclose the whole content of the notepad ?
I would think we need to get the landlord's permission as I understand
from the Benefits section that he can be identified from the content. Does
anyone else have any views ?
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