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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 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 ...
The problem relates to an ageing computer system and has led to some people being underpaid or overpaid.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) define benefit fraud as when someone obtains state benefit they are not entitled to or deliberately fails to report a change in their personal circumstances. The DWP claim that fraudulent benefit claims amounted to around £900 million in 2019–20. [1]
An FOI (Freedom of Information application) to The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was made in 2019. The DWP's response states that up until May 2019 £74,690,000 has been paid out from the fund, and 941 claims have been successful.
The DWP describes pension credit as a “passport” benefit, opening the door to more financial help than just the top-up. This includes housing benefit, support with mortgages, a free TV licence ...
R (Reilly and Wilson) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2013] UKSC 68 is a United Kingdom constitutional law and labour law case that found the conduct of the Department for Work and Pensions "workfare" policy was unlawful. [1]