Feb 28 2007
Welfare State Woes
Britain’s dead need living wages too!
More than ?57m in benefits were paid to dead people last year, government figures have shown.
The junior work and pensions minister James Plaskitt said 98% of overpayments happened when death occurred too late to stop an automated payment.
The most overpayments - ?34.4m - were made for pensions, with ?13.3m paid in income support.
The Tory work and pensions spokesman Philip Hammond said it was “more evidence of chaos” at the department.
Some people think we need more systems like this in America. Bah to them.
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