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Fraudulent claim or wrong address?

I’m in receipt of a legacy benefit. This morning a letter came in the post addressed to someone else at my address.
It was a notification from Universal Credit, informing the addressee that a named person had told them they were now caring for them so any extra benefits they received would be reduced etc.
I’ve already emailed a local welfare benefits advisor for help, as somehow my address is in their system.
The envelope it came in wasn’t a UC envelope, it was a brown DWP one with return address in Belfast.
Do these errors happen often?
It was a notification from Universal Credit, informing the addressee that a named person had told them they were now caring for them so any extra benefits they received would be reduced etc.
I’ve already emailed a local welfare benefits advisor for help, as somehow my address is in their system.
The envelope it came in wasn’t a UC envelope, it was a brown DWP one with return address in Belfast.
Do these errors happen often?
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Thanks for that.
The letter head states DWP and the sides state Universal Credit Full Service.
It gives the UC website and telephone number but no full address.
I noticed there’s no personal details like NI Number for the addressee either.
All will be revealed tomorrow I guess.
Thanks again.
THANKYOU!! I really thought I was becoming paranoid over this. Which is why I emailed for help. I’m not even going to attempt to try and unravel this myself.
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