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UK households face a fight to "clear their name" after Department for Work and Pensions debt recovery letters were sent out. One Birmingham man has spoken out to the Guardian newspaper branding the ordeal "Kafkaesque".

Michael Bene is repaying a £763 ‘advance’ despite evidence he did not attend a face-to-face verification interview with the DWP . The 51-year-old is trying to clear his name after a fraudulent universal credit claim was made using his identity.

Mr Bene has supplied evidence he was in the Scottish Highlands when the claimant attended a face-to-face verification interview in Cheshire. He told the newspaper on Monday how the ordeal has “just turned my life into hell on Earth”.

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He is being mad

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