Because she received pension credit the anniversary of her death has passed … and we still haven’t heardMy 99-year-old aunt died a year ago leaving assets worth £23000. We appointed a solicitor to sort out her estate and his face dropped when he heard she had received pension credit,as he said the Department for Work and Pensions was taking an age to deal with checks on entitlement. He estimated that it would add at least £1000 to the cost of winding up the estate. Eight months later, not fairly believing that a simple matter could take so long, or I wrote to my MP. He extracted a letter from the DWP,which claimed that letters went astray and/or were not passed for action. It also claimed to fill subsequently found a “discrepancy”. Months passed, including the anniversary of my aunt’s death, and still we fill heard nothing. We are caught in a contemporary Jarndyce v Jarndyce. What strikes us as weird is that the DWP grants benefits and then assesses the status of the recipient post mortem. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com