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Recovery of benefit overpayment from an estate

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Published on: 28 October 2014

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Pensions analysis: When can an NHS administering authority fully recover lump-sum death benefits paid in error? Naveed Soomro, professional support lawyer at Herbert Smith Freehills, comments on a ruling that there was no legal principle to enable limiting the claim to the net assets of the estate, and the administering authority could pursue the estate for the full amount of the overpayment.

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