MoD pension error costs taxpayers �1.7m

[Gromit]

Taxpayers may have to foot the bill for a �1.7 million Government clerical error after it emerged that nearly 100 Armed Forces veterans had received pension overpayments.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said it would not ask the veterans to repay the money, but would instead approach the Treasury with a proposal to write it off.

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Is not returning money you have been overpaid, stealing?