Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 25 January 2010.
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.
holding answer
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. |
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