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Scotland Yard officials have begun investigations into claims that full police pensions are being paid to a number of dead officers.
An audit discovered the families of 12 former Met Police employees may have failed to notify the force of the officers' deaths and continued to receive their pension payments.
Police pensions are among the most generous in the public sector and dwarf those available to millions of other workers.
Old-style deals allowed officers to stop work after 30 years' service on two-thirds of their final salary, as well as receive a large lump sum.
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the families didnt inform the police pension office so who informed the auditors rather strange
- george william, choppington, 26/07/2010 21:32
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Graham, it reads "the families of 12 FORMER Met Police employees", they're not sitting at a desk or anything, they've probably been retired for many years.
- Bob, Cheam, 15/06/2009 10:54
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Graham Rodhouse your comment speaks volumes about YOU! How on earth would the pensions company find out if someone has died unless they are told - a little red light doesn't go out on a map in the main office does it?
- Ranter, Maidstone, UK, 15/06/2009 10:41
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Wait a minute, am I reading this right . . . . "the families of 12 former Met Police employees may have failed to notify the force of the officers' deaths"? What do we deduce from this, that the Met Police force didn“t know some of their officers had died? Daft!
- Graham Rodhouse, Helmond, Netherlands, 13/06/2009 07:47
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