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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
The problem relates to an ageing computer system and has led to some people being underpaid or overpaid.
The Administrative Penalty is effectively a fine and is set at 30% or 50% of the total amount overpaid to them (the percentage applied is dependent upon when the overpayment period commenced - overpayments occurring wholly on or after 08.05.2012 incur a 50% fine).
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for welfare , pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK's biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million ...
Ms Lieven's argument involves two steps. First, Ms Reilly's work at Poundland was "exacted ... under menace of [a] penalty", ie disallowance of jobseeker's allowance, and was therefore prima facie forced labour, and for that she relies on the decision of the Strasbourg court in Van Der Mussele v Belgium (1983) 6 EHRR 163, para 34. Secondly, the ...
Americans who receive pensions have a complicated ... an 80-year-old Maryland woman who received $1,400 a month in Social Security survivor benefits following the death ... The bill has “broad ...
Government spending on benefits is set to be £8.6 billion over budget, DWP boss Liz Kendall has said, as she promises ‘radical reforms’ to cut the welfare bill.. Speaking in Commons, the work ...