UK paid over $1 billion in benefits to dead people – Telegraph

The Department for Work and Pensions wasted millions of pounds due to delayed death notifications and administrative errors, according to an investigation

Britain’s welfare department has paid out £850 million (over $1.1 billion) in benefits to dead people over the past four years in a massive government blunder, The Telegraph has reported.

Since 2021, the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) made approximately 2.6 million erroneous payments to deceased claimants, the newspaper found. The errors reportedly stemmed from death notifications arriving too late to stop automated payouts, or being processed just as a payment was about to be sent.

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