I have been sent a letter from HB office telling me my housing benifit is suspended and that I have to provide proof of income. Reasons given is the the DWP has informed them my benefit ceased in Dec 2012. The letter is not the usual susupension letter as I have checked against the letters recieved previously. background: I was separated from hubby in 2012, in October a DWP investigation into whether he was living with me was started, he was living and working in Staffordshire, I proved he was not, case ended. I was on JSA at time, on 7th Nov 2012 had an op was transfered onto ESA was paid for six week the op caused bad depression as the problem was not resolved if anything made worse, in this time my HB was suppended and then reapproved. ESA stopped and on 25th Dec and again on 16th Jan HB wrote and suspended my benefit. My benefit was repaid after informing them I was not any other benefits ( I dont have proof of this as I cant go back on my AOL/talk talk account to see if I rang, but remember taking paperword to local housing office, but again no receipt. My benifits continued. In june 2013 hunbby came back to house, I informed DWP for child tax, filled out new forms and wrote to HB, have copy. saying he moved in, what date and his average wage per week. Today I went to Citizens advice as the letter I have recieved from HB said a reply had to be returned by today, I had scoured yell.com and phoned every local and non local solicitors for 15 miles and non of them now deal with this ( apparently its to do wiith funding). In a letter from council tax dated 21/1/2013 it says that I have to ring and make a new payments arrangement for old Counil Tax owed that was left when hubby left in 2012, as I was no longer recieving benifits, I rang and sorted new payments to them. After visiting CAB they had booked me in with a debt advisor instead of a benifits advisor today who rang council on my behalf and asked for extra time to respond, had a short conversation with a girl from CT about it she seemed to know and after putting the phone down said you will have to come back and see me after they work out what you have to pay back, depending if its fraud or not. This stunned me to say the least. I am still no further at all with this, they had booked me into see the wrong person for debt rather than a benifits advice person, I am desperate, I have read some terrible stories of cautions and fraud and I have to say I have made some mistake on this myself. Firstly not reading the reviews form the HB office properly and having them pointed out to me today that what I thought they were telling me I was entiltled to is actually what they thought I was on and re-reading it it does clearly say '' you say you are in reciept of EAS'' above the other wording. I am in one hellof a mess and dont know what to do. As far as I am aware I told them every time I had a change in circumstances, although the letter from the 16th Jan I cannot remember what information I supplied, but my claim was re instated. The letter I received about not paying me ESA anymore arrived way before this date and Iwould have sent the last letter I got and bank statements. If anyone has any idea what I am supposedd to do please could you post, to say I am living a nightmare is an understement.