Residents in Wirral are owed more than £400,000 three years after overpaying for their accommodation a Freedom of Information request has revealed. 

The Wirral Globe report:

DISMAY and anger has greeted news vulnerable residents in council care are still waiting to be repaid hundreds of thousands of pounds they were wrongly charged for their accommodation.

The overcharging was at the centre of a scandal exposed in the Globe in 2008 by former Department of Adult Social Services manager-turned-whistleblower Martin Morton.

In 2010, the council finally acknowledged nearly 40 vulnerable adults collectively were owed more than £240,000.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.