DWP Claims Estate of Mother

PoorCharleyBear

Pensions are paid say on ist Monday of a month to cover that month...so 1st August to cover August.

If your mother died on 5th August, they would claim back 3 weeks of that money, as your mother received her money in advance.
It is standard practice and we had to repay DWP a few weeks after my mother died shortly after her payment date.

If however she was claiming additional benefits- these would be a different matter with so many assets (not including her home)

oldboy64

PoorCharleyBear wrote: »

Pensions are paid say on ist Monday of a month to cover that month...so 1st August to cover August.

If your mother died on 5th August, they would claim back 3 weeks of that money, as your mother received her money in advance.
It is standard practice and we had to repay DWP a few weeks after my mother died shortly after her payment date.

If however she was claiming additional benefits- these would be a different matter with so many assets (not including her home)

Sorry but the State Pension since 2010 has been paid in arrears!

In other words there can never be an overpayment.

Mojisola

oldboy64 wrote: »

Sorry but the State Pension since 2010 has been paid in arrears!

Has it?

https://www.gov.uk/state-pension/what-youll-get
The basic State Pension is usually paid 4-weekly into an account of your choice.

Payments are always made in advance on the same weekday.

oldboy64

Mojisola wrote: »

Has it?

https://www.gov.uk/state-pension/what-youll-get
The basic State Pension is usually paid 4-weekly into an account of your choice.

Payments are always made in advance on the same weekday.

No they are not. Since 2010, they made the State Pension payable in arrears every 4 weeks.

Mojisola

oldboy64 wrote: »

No they are not. Since 2010, they made the State Pension payable in arrears every 4 weeks.

That was a quote from the Government site. Perhaps you'd better have a word with them and tell them it's wrong.

lld01

oldboy64 wrote: »

No they are not. Since 2010, they made the State Pension payable in arrears every 4 weeks.

Your thinking of pension credit (new claims from 2010 only)

xylophone

Sorry but the State Pension since 2010 has been paid in arrears!

I can assure you that people who drew their state pension before April 6 2010 and were paid weekly were (and still are) paid in advance!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8348264.stm

oldboy64

xylophone wrote: »

I can assure you that people who drew their state pension before April 6 2010 and were paid weekly were (and still are) paid in advance!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8348264.stm

I think we are at cross purposes here.

The way I remember it was that if you were over pensionable age before April 2010 you would still have the right to a weekly payment in advance. If that option isn't exercised they will revert to 4 weeks in arrears as it was before the change.

The only change is that for those who become of pensionable age after April 2010 they will have no choice - the State Pension will always be paid in arrears with a default period of every 4 weeks.
They also fiddled about with the payment dates.

So anybody that receives the State Pension will have it in arrears every 4 weeks excepting those pre 2010 claimants who can opt to have it paid in advance weekly.

xylophone

I think we are at cross purposes here.

You said

Sorry but the State Pension since 2010 has been paid in arrears!

In other words there can never be an overpayment.

Since there may well be thousands of pre 2010 pensioners receiving their pensions in advance, clearly there can quite easily be an overpayment.

The OP gave no details of how his late mother was receiving her pension but she had started to receive it before 2010.

oldboy64

xylophone wrote: »

You said


Since there may well be thousands of pre 2010 pensioners receiving their pensions in advance, clearly there can quite easily be an overpayment.

The OP gave no details of how his late mother was receiving her pension but she had started to receive it before 2010.

errr have you not read what I posted

........over pensionable age before April 2010 you would still have the right to a weekly payment in advance. If that option isn't exercised they will revert to 4 weeks in arrears as it was before the change.

The only change is that for those who become of pensionable age after April 2010 they will have no choice - the State Pension will always be paid in arrears with a default period of every 4 weeks.