I have no idea what benefits my mother may have received or how much,
my guess about "when" is that it would be between June 2009 and August 2013,
the latter being the time of her death and
the former a time when I know her savings had been small.
During that period I believe she spent very little of the benefits she received
so her “savings” would have grown but without amounts & dates from bank statements
I’ve no idea when she would have ceased qualifying for some of those benefits
& what the extent of any overpayments might be.
I don’t want to fork out an arm & a leg for 4 years’ worth of statements until I know how far back the DWP thinks the overpayments go.
I’d like to bring my duties as executor to a close and the usual Notice in the Gazette won’t achieve that
because I’ve already been advised of the DWP’s “potential claim”.
I'm hoping there's a legal time limit to how long they can expect everything to remain frozen awaiting their decision.
(Or, failing that, the matter slips through the cracks for six years so it becomes unenforceable.
Only joking on that one
- I know it doesn't apply to debts to the Crown.
Unless this would just be considered a debt to a local authority, in which case I'm not joking.)
DR