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Macfarlanes partner Faye Jarvis
The overpayment of benefits is not uncommon in pension schemes and many trustees will have had to grapple with this issue at some point in their tenure.
The starting point is that a member does not have a right to retain money paid to them by mistake, irrespective of whether the person making the payment by mistake was negligent. Trustees have two ...
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