Department for Work and Pensions: Debt Collection
(asked on 4th June 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department engages enforcement agents.
This question was answered on 10th June 2019
Where a claimant is no longer in receipt of benefit, and all other recovery options have been exhausted, the Department for Work and Pensions may refer a debt to a Private Sector Debt Collection Agency.
In March 2015, Indesser, was appointed as the provider of cross-government debt services under a joint-venture with the Cabinet Office.