Carer's Allowance: Overpayments
(asked on 23rd April 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many potential cases of overpayments of carer’s allowance were flagged by the Verified Earnings and Pensions service system in each of the last five financial years; and how many such cases were investigated in each of those years.
This question was answered on 1st May 2024
Rounded | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
The number of cases flagged as potentially in need of investigation by the VEPs system | 91,000 | 73,000 | 96,000 | 107,000 | 67,000 |
The number of cases investigated | 35,000 | 38,000 | 46,000 | 50,000 | 35,000 |