- Purpose
- To ensure that benefit payment arrears are paid correctly.
- Information sharing benefits
- DWP will be able to identify claimants who were not correctly paid state pension and pay arrears of benefit due. For claimants who are now deceased; DWP will be able to make substantial savings of time and cost by not needing to trace potential next of kin by other methods.
- Disclosed information
- Name and Surname of the informant
Qualification
Usual address of the informant at the time the death was registered
Admin area of coroner if no informant
- Information sharing method
- Electronic Verification
- Contact
- mark.shapland@dwp.gov.uk
- Start date
- 2023-08-04
- End date
- Review date
- Retention period
- P0D
- Isa status
- Active
- Id
- 280
- Notes
- no change
- Updated
- 06 November 2024