PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
COMPENSATION RECOVERY UNIT (No. 3) (9 July 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.

Sponsored by:
Tony Worthington (Labour)