DWP claim against estate

TELLIT01

There seem to have been a number of instances of DWP trying to claim for overpayments in excess of 20 years old. How they expect anybody to provide information from that far back is a mystery.
I would ask them for the documentation they have to prove the overpayment. The likelihood of them actually being able to prove an overpayment from 20 years ago is limited at best.

Poppie68

TELLIT01 wrote: »

There seem to have been a number of instances of DWP trying to claim for overpayments in excess of 20 years old. How they expect anybody to provide information from that far back is a mystery.
I would ask them for the documentation they have to prove the overpayment. The likelihood of them actually being able to prove an overpayment from 20 years ago is limited at best.

You are replying to a post from nearly 3 years ago....

missapril75

TELLIT01 wrote: »

There seem to have been a number of instances of DWP trying to claim for overpayments in excess of 20 years old. How they expect anybody to provide information from that far back is a mystery.

There seem to have been a number of instances of people believing that DWP have suddenly decided to claim back overpayments (and loans) having sat around for 20 years doing naff all about it.

How they believe there's been no previous unsuccessful attempts at recovery from those owing the money is a mystery.

Mojisola

missapril75 wrote: »

There seem to have been a number of instances of people believing that DWP have suddenly decided to claim back overpayments (and loans) having sat around for 20 years doing naff all about it.

How they believe there's been no previous unsuccessful attempts at recovery from those owing the money is a mystery.

This can happen because the DWP has been assessing the benefit entitlement using the figures provided by the deceased.

When they die and the DWP realises that the deceased actually had a lot more money stashed away, they do the calculations again and claim back years of overpayments.

TELLIT01

Poppie68 wrote: »

You are replying to a post from nearly 3 years ago....

Thanks Poppie68 I didn't look back at the start date. Why do people reactivate a thread which has been dormant for over a year? Maybe threads with no activity for x months could be locked automatically.

rogerblack

Lovehols wrote: »

Pension I believe and had 50K savings but had a £50k morgage on the property

As a general point for benefits - debts owed but not immediately repayable are not normally subtracted from any assets you have, so if you have a 50K mortgage and 50K savings, you have 50K, not 0.

McKneff

Members really should not hijack other peoples threads.


It is very confusing and this one has been dug up from 3 years agp


If you need help with a problem, please start your own thread.....

missapril75

Mojisola wrote: »

This can happen because the DWP has been assessing the benefit entitlement using the figures provided by the deceased.

When they die and the DWP realises that the deceased actually had a lot more money stashed away, they do the calculations again and claim back years of overpayments.

Yes I know. But I was referring more to a bunch of posts where people are being advised of outstanding debts (loans as well as overpayments) from years ago that have been partly repaid and they now claim to know nothing about them.

missapril75

McKneff wrote: »

Members really should not hijack other peoples threads.
It is very confusing and this one has been dug up from 3 years agp

Not sure why it should be confusing if there's been no activity for three years.

The thing is, if someone has an identical or similar question, there may be some information of relevance in the dead thread. Some of it may be relevant but there might be something missing or needs updating. But it's often a useful starting point especially if someone can refer to an issue already there.

This is one of those things where there's no right and wrong way. Use a previous thread and some say it should be a new one. Start a new thread and someone says search for previous ones.

That this thread has been used and people can see what's been mentioned previously saves anyone repeating what has been said before.