Written question asked by John Barrett (Liberal Democrat) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 18 January 2010. It was answered by Lord Knight of Weymouth (Labour) on Monday, 25 January 2010 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.
Social Security Payments: Overpayments
- Question
- To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many cases of alleged benefit overpayments her Department investigated on cases where the claimants had since died in each of the last five years.
- Answer
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[holding answer 18 January 2010]: Information on the number of investigations of potential benefit overpayments where the customer has since died is based on the volume of probate records that matched with deceased benefit recipients' records. This information is held only for the last two years.
Number of cases where probate match received Number of those cases where a claim was made against the estate 2007-08 51,829 6,492 2008-09 67,021 7,356 Source: Shared Services Debt Manager via Business Objects.
Secondary information
- Type
- Written question
- Reference
- 504 c579W; 310953
- Session
- 2009-10
- Subjects
- Overpayments Social security benefits
- Contains statistics
- Yes
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