Question follow-through · 34653
Royal Mail: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on the number of times Capita has made overpayments in relation to (a) tax-free lump sums and (b) regular pension payments for people taking their pension benefits from the
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 28 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 10 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on the number of times Capita has made overpayments in relation to (a) tax-free lump sums and (b) regular pension payments for people taking their pension benefits from the
4 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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10 Mar 2025
Answer published
Capita, the Royal Mail Statutory Pension Scheme administrator, has made the following overpayments: 2019202020212022202320242025 to 3/3/2025(a)tax-free lump sums497149060(b)regular pension payments3276171378190921 Capita has carried out several data corr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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