Family members who are asked to pay state pension payments back on behalf of deceased relatives may not legally have to pay it, Martin Lewis has warned.
The Government has been writing to the relatives of those who have passed away, asking them to return overpaid state pension payments – but this is not a legal requirement.
The issue was raised on Twitter after Radio 4 host Paul Lewis responded to a tweet from a man who had just lost his mother and complained that the DWP had asked the family to return £160.
