Former Revenue and Customs boss Paul Gray was praised for “doing the decent thing” when two disks containing the child benefit details of 25 million people were lost in the post last November.[>

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He was handed a lump sum pay-off of £137,591. But yesterday it emerged that he is still being paid £7,000 a month and will continue to do so until his 60th birthday on August 2. He will then be entitled to claim his pension from a pot of £2million.[>

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HM Revenue and Customs’ annual accounts, published this week, reveal Mr Gray scooped a total of £306,883 after the scandal.[>