Financial Assistance Sch-eme payouts are slow because staff lack expertise, a scathing internal investigation by the department for work and pensions claims.
But the DWP also claimed the FAS – which was launched to help members of wound-up defined benefit pension schemes – had not been able to collect data of “sufficient quantity and quality to assess m...
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