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Letters from DWP
mazjohn108
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I've kept every letter from DWP since I started claiming my pension in 2008. Do I need to keep them all? If not, how far back should I keep?
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I keep all Government letters, but I only keep things like bank statements going back for 5 years and they are increasingly sent to me by email anyway. You can always scan them and put them on a flash drive if they are taking up too much room. I have letters and receipts for my voluntary NI payments going back to 1987.And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.1
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Scan them and store digitally.1
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If you do that store them on more than one device. I backed up my computer on to an external hard drive only for the external hard drive to go kaput.
Personally I never throw paper away but I admit it does make vacuuming the carpet a bit tricky.1
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