Urmee Khan reports:
The TV Licence renewal documents – including names, dates of birth, first lines of address and National Insurance numbers – were sent to 1,199 residential care homes in December 2008.
The details of 16,521 people over the age of 75 were sent out, but many were sent to the wrong care homes.
Once notified of the error, 852 of the care homes were contacted by the BBC. At least 1,512 had gone to the wrong place, the BBC has admitted.
A statement from the corporation acknowledged the incident “involved some renewal documents intended for residential care homes, some of which were sent to the wrong scheme administrators after an error at Orchestra”, a mailing house.
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