Has everyone received a letter from Dwp regarding WFP?

Iam64

I expect there’s a legal or societal/ethical reason why individual people received individual letters

Data protection.

People are complaining/commenting (I didn't complain merely noted we had received letters) because most of the letters will be going to people who no longer qualify and it does seem a waste of money when we're told how bad the finances are, even if it is unavoidable. Of course letters had to be sent to individuals, no government agency can send out joint benefit letters. If these letters prompt those that are eligible for pension credit, but not currently claiming, to apply for it then that will be a good outcome.

I genuinely don’t get why people are complaining about this, when the same people complain that they didn’t receive letters from the DWP about the pension age changing. If everybody gets a letter, nobody can say they don’t know, and that they haven’t been told how to claim support if they are entitled to it, can they?

Me too rosie51 still working!

I’ve banked on line for over 20 years without a problem. 😊
Paper? Letters?
Soon be obsolete.
Ah wait … many hospitals STILL use paper records. Duh!

Exactly MissA.

I’ve resisted moving from paper to online bank statements. My hospital appointments and any appointments with my GP now arrive digitally. I expect letters by mail to become extinct before long.
Currently, we still have letters from public bodies. I can onky imagine the outcry if people had received texts, or no confirmation of any kind on the WFA

You're two separate people, though. (I'm sure you've already noticed!)

In terms of benefits, national insurance, and so on, you each have presumably different histories?

Yes we have.
One for Himself on Friday.
One for me in the post today. The postage bill must be phenomenal!
Crazy.

I expect there’s a legal or societal/ethical reason why individual people received individual letters

MissAdventure

I get the feeling that it would also been wrong had no letters been sent out.

Exactly! They can’t do right for doing wrong 🙄

I don’t know why posters think that they should have had one letter between two either 🤷🏼‍♀️

foxie48

MissAdventure

I get the feeling that it would also been wrong had no letters been sent out.

Yup!

Exactly so MissAdventure.
Moaning seems to be a national pastime

Neither of us have had a letter either. I’m not bothered, it’s a waste of money, in my opinion. Surely everyone knows, it’s been all over the news for weeks.

I got one letter about my change of pension age; it said my new pension age would be 61. I didn’t get another letter telling me that actually my pension age had been changed again to 63. I was not informed of that at all. I found out accidentally when doing a search online to check the exact time of my state pension age.

MissAdventure

I get the feeling that it would also been wrong had no letters been sent out.

Yup!

I get the feeling that it would also been wrong had no letters been sent out.

Yes got mine last week. Knew I wasn't eligible anyway.

But maybe they send them out with all the details of who can claim so that if they have made a mistake people will be made aware to query it if they see they are eligible.

We both got ours last week. Yes, waste of money as we knew we wouldn’t get it.
I was never informed by letter ( born 1954 ) about the pension age changes.

My partner and I got ours last week. Total waste of time and money.

sharon103

Yes I had mine last week. Nowt for me either.
I didn't get the pension age letter either.

Yep...you and me both. I had that letter last week.

Ditto re that pension age letter. I duly signed and sent off my copy of the official WASPI letter complaining I'd not been notified of them revising my State Pension Age upwards (grrr!).

Latest article I've read re our chances of getting any of our money back on that one was in the online Daily Mail today and I interpreted it as "Not just will the Government (maybe.....big maybe) plan on only giving me peanuts of my stolen money back again (ie that maximum for anyone of approx £3,000) - but it looks to me as if any of our money that is given back to us will be contingent on whether we knew at the time they were going to do this to us personally".

So maybe....just itsy bitsy maybe someone who didn't know they were going to do this to her might conceivably get a tiny bit of money back. But those of us that can't say "I got to nearly 60 and was ready to retire and only then realised they'd shifted the goalposts - and I am broke/so broke because they did that" might be lucky to even get peanuts back of our money.

Personally - I knew the second They decided to do that to me. I remember sitting there in my 40's reading the financial pages and thinking "B*stards! How dare they do that to me.....expletive deleted and surely I'm too old for them to do that to me as well, because I've done so much of my worklife by now". But I actually started my financial planning for retirement in my 30's (ie several years before they pulled that stunt on us) and so I survived financially - though it was part of why my finances were worse than I'd planned on and I had to move across country (not by choice).

DianaLouise

what a complete waste of time, effort and money. Especially as both myself and my husband received individual letters!

Yes, we received separate letters too. Talk about rubbing salt into the wound!

They really are totally useless aren't they.

foxie48

I'm sure my letter included information about how to claim pension credit and what benefits in addition to WFP can be accessed regardless of how small the amount of PC someone is entitled to. Applications for PC have soared and the govt has taken on extra people in order to try to process the claims as quickly as pos, I really pleased about that and the reason every one who might be eligible needs to be contacted.

I'm glad they've drafted in extra people but I agree with Martin Lewis, they don't have a snowball's chance in hell of being able to process up to 850,000 applications in the next couple of months. Most pensioners will not run up fuel bills they can't be sure they can pay.

I haven't received one, so perhaps all those who are not personally informed can complain like the waspi women.

Yes. Straight in the shredder. More waste of money.

Both ours arrived in the same delivery, so both went in bin.

Had mine about 2 weeks ago and DH has had his today, as you say OP what a waste of money and paper, they went straight into the shredding bin.