Potential plans for bank account monitoring
The Express have published an article on potential plans for the Department for Work and Pensions to monitor bank accounts. Ministers have been urged not to revive the previous government’s plans to tackle […]
Government rejects calls to withdraw plan to monitor bank accounts of pensioners
The Government has defended its proposals to give banks and other financial institutions powers to monitor the bank accounts of anyone in receipt of State Pension, “to tackle benefit fraud”, […]
Stop the snooping…
As we discussed in this update before Christmas there is a worrying clause in the new ‘Data Protection and Digital Information Bill’ which would give the Department of Work and […]
MP criticises Government proposals to allow inspection of Pensioners’ bank accounts
CSPA, and our partner organisations in Later Life Ambitions (LLA), have echoed concerns raised by the Chair of the Parliamentary Works & Pensions committee, Sir Stephen Timms MP, about Government […]