State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad

(asked on 14th March 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with which overseas banks located in which countries his Department is working on overseas state pension fraud and error.


This question was answered on 22nd March 2017

The Department combats overseas state pension fraud and error by means of data matching and life certificates.

DWP continues to explore how to extend and improve existing data matching arrangements. However, at present, the Department does not have any formal arrangements with overseas banks regarding notifications of death.

On occasions, DWP will receive notification from an overseas bank informing the Department that a payment has been rejected because of the death of a payee.

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