Compensation Recovery Unit (No. 3)

EDM number 1371 in 1994-95, proposed by Tony Worthington on 10/07/1995.

That this House congratulates the Social Security Committee on its excellent report on the damaging work of the Compensation Recovery Unit of the DSS; agrees with the Committee that some of the cases it encountered 'are revolting to the ordinary man's sense of justice'; deplores the practice of the DSS in clawing back benefits from awards that had been made for pain and suffering; regrets that the victims are not now pursuing just claims because only the Treasury would benefit; believes that the Select Committee is right when it says that benefit repayment should be made by insurance companies and guilty parties not by victims; congratulates the Committee on urging that all clawback of benefits from asbestosis victims should stop at the earliest opportunity; and calls upon the Government to act urgently to implement the report.

This motion has been signed by a total of 144 MPs.