My father passed away just over a year ago, myself and oh were executors of his will. We obtained a grant of probate in January and shortly after his bank account was closed and his estate was distributed in line with his wishes.
He had a credit card with his bank which was paid off, he had no other debts, utilities etc were on prepayment meters.
His bank account had been frozen 2 days after his death when I rang to inform them of the situation and we used a service provided by the registry office called "tell us once" who inform all government agencies of the death....pensions, council tax etc.
We have today received via the probate solicitor a letter from DWP saying that they had made a payment in the week following his death which they now need repaying.
My problem is this.......why has it taken over a year for them to notice their error? Do we have to settle this bill considering the time lapse of over a year? now that there is no estate it will have to come from me / my oh is that right? I have no idea if his pension was paid in advance or arrears and therefore if he was actually entitled to the payment? I'm not even sure we still have any paperwork to check the payment was ever made in the first place.
Obviously I will ring them on Monday, I wondered if anyone had any experience of this?
Thank you in advance.