Former pensions minister criticises DWP over letters asking bereaved relatives to return State Pension overpayments.

I am unsure as to my next steps. I am 40 years old. Steve Webb replies: It is worrying that you are suffering from a known problem which the Government recently told MPs had been fully resolved.

Sir Steve Webb said the letters from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) do not make clear that repaying the money is voluntary. The DWP overpaid more than £500 million of state pension and ...

Former Liberal Democrat MP Sir Steve Webb, who served as pensions minister in the coalition government, thinks there is still a case for keeping it now, and there is still “a pretty low state ...

Steve Webb replies: I can entirely understand why you might be concerned about recent stories about government plans to use the money in our pensions to increase the growth rate of the economy.

Sir Steve Webb – who served as pensions minister during the coalition government and signed off the triple lock in 2010 – said the policy could be replaced with a system whereby pensioners ...

SCROLL DOWN TO FIND OUT HOW TO ASK STEVE YOUR PENSION QUESTION Steve Webb replies: The issue of which inflation index is appropriate to use to increase pensions (and benefits) each year has been ...