JSA Payment had just been paid into my account

DiscoPistol

Hello all,

I've just checked my bank account and have been paid £60.50 JSA. Which is weird as I've not made a claim and am in full time employment.

I've phoned the nice people at the DWP and apparently the payment is from a claim that was made last Wednesday. They are going to call me back and will hopefully just take the money back and cancel the claim, but I was just wondering if this has happened to anyone else or whether I need to take steps to make sure I can't be nailed to the wall for a false claim!

Thanks in advance

DP

Pigletto

I'd say it's probably that a mistake was made re bank account details. Either the claimant made a mistake when putting down their details or an officer at the DWP did when getting the payments set up. All it takes is for a couple of digits to be the wrong way round.

It's very unlikely that the DWP would take action against you for a false/fraudulent claim as this is for people who have claimed and witheld information or given false information, etc. Your situation is you haven't made a claim, you have noticed a payment has been made to you in error and have informed the DWP about it so there's no fraud there.

DiscoPistol

Thanks for the reply.

I've just phnoed them back (as I'd heard nothing) and was told that the money is from a claim that I made in January 2009 and is mine!

I await there next phonecall, which should have an explination, with some excitement