Worthing pensioner receives £50,000 in unpaid benefits (From The Argus)
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Worthing pensioner receives £50,000 in unpaid benefits
12:10pm Saturday 3rd December 2011 in News By Ruth Lumley
A pensioner has been handed almost £50,000 in benefits he was owed over more than a decade.
Walter Craven, 102, who lives at the Victoria Royal Beach care home in Grand Avenue, Worthing, should have been receiving attendance allowance – incapacity benefit for people over 65 – for the past 16 years.
But because of a mix-up between West Sussex County Council and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) he was not given any support.
But with the help of East Worthing and Shoreham MP Tim Loughton he has now been given a payment of £49,880 last week meaning he can now afford to pay his care home fees for a few more years.
Geoffrey Sargent, Mr Craven’s son-in-law, said if it had not been for West Sussex County Council, they would not have realised
Comments(6)
Mart2a
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5:34pm Sat 3 Dec 11
spencer1973
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7:41pm Sat 3 Dec 11
Angryoldman
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8:23am Sun 4 Dec 11
Unfortunately he will now only be able to keep up to sixteen thousand maximum savings allowed.
The rest will be taken away. Not a good story at all. In reality the poor guy has been ripped of for tens of thousands.
Almighty Sky Pixie
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12:03pm Sun 4 Dec 11
On a general point, I understand that the government is working on bringing down the maximum permissable age for men to 68 - so at least there is less chance of this sort of thing happening again.
Ted-Kelly1
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12:31pm Sun 4 Dec 11
There seems to be a 'barbed-wire fence' of bureaucracy to be negotiated, before they will be payed out.
mustaphaLeeko says...
1:40pm Sat 3 Dec 11