Two women called Jean Price given the same NI number

[Sweetpea]

Having retired at 60, Jean Price was depending on her £46-a-week state pension to help pay the bills. But after arriving for the first two months, the payment was abruptly stopped.

Mrs Price, a law-abiding great-grandmother who has worked all her life, found to her horror that a woman with the same name and date of birth had also been allocated her National Insurance number and had been using it legitimately for years because of the mix-up.

The details of the other Jean Price, who lives eight miles away in Timperley, Greater Manchester, are now the only ones which the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) recognise.

This means that Mrs Price, from Stockport, cannot claim her pension because she does not have her own number.

Mrs Price worked in a cotton mill, sweet factory and as a kitchen porter in addition to raising six children.

She has had her pension cut off for the past five months and says this has left her and her disabled husband Alan, 56, penniless.

The couple had been living on her pension and a carer's allowance but both of these have been cut while an investigation is carried out.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1033692/Two-women-called-Jean-Price-given-NI-number--ONE-gets-pension.html


What a ridiculous situation. The whole damn department is made up of immigrants I bet.

[Churchill]

No, they just don't do any work, and when they do some, they make so many fuckups it just creates more work for their mates.

[poppy]

There have been several cases like this now it is getting beyond a joke. They were not in such dire straights. Total cods up all round and this is the norm.

[Haqa]

DWP = Department of W-o.gs and (Tent)pissers ?

Seems to be the only groups of people who can get a reliable service from them...

H.