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In the latest year, £144m was overpaid in state pensions by the DWP after a person's death due to delayed reporting. The department recovered £67.3m, leaving £76.7m in unrecovered overpayments.
A welfare loophole means the DWP is unlikely to ever recover the money
DWP also administers State Pension, Pension Credit, disability benefits such as Personal Independence Payment, and support for life events from Maternity Allowance to bereavement benefits. Non-departmental bodies accountable to DWP include the Health and Safety Executive, The Pensions Regulator and the Money and Pensions Service.
A person can move from the standard to the higher rate if they begin receiving Child Benefit after the claim has been made. [1] Bereavement Support Payment does not affect other benefits for a year after the first payment. After a year, remaining money left from the first payment can affect claims for other means-tested benefits. [1]
In February 2005, the Welfare Secretary Alan Johnson announced plans to replace Incapacity Benefit with two new benefits: "Disability and Sickness Allowance", for people deemed too ill to work; and "Rehabilitation Support Allowance", paid at the same rate as Jobseekers Allowance to less disabled people, who would be supported by the DWP back ...
As many as 13,000 benefit claimants could be entitled to thousands of pounds in compensation as the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) settles a major court claim.. Over 200 claimants were ...
He complained that by having his benefits reduced he was being forced to do work to which he had a conscientious objection, contrary to article 4. The application was declared manifestly ill-founded and inadmissible. In Schuitemaker v The Netherlands (Application No 15906/08) (unreported) 4 May 2010 the applicant was a philosopher by profession ...
Both restrict Social Security benefits for public-sector pensioners — and in some cases, people have even had benefits taken away. Social Security Cuts: States That Would Be Impacted the Least