State Retirement Pensions: Fraud
(asked on 18th January 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have been convicted for offences relating to the fraudulent encashment of state pension payments which were for deceased recipients in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 23rd January 2024
The Department is unable to provide convictions data for State Pension fraud cases relating to deceased individuals.
State Pension fraud and error is low, but it does exist, with £100m estimated to have been overpaid in State Pension in 2022/23.