Employment and Support Allowance: Underpayments Debate
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Melanie Onn
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Employment and Support Allowance: Underpayments
Melanie Onn Excerpts(5 years, 9 months ago)
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Sarah Newton
Of course, we will be contacting people who are concerned, but I reassure everyone in the House that the Department has taken this issue extremely seriously and has undertaken a very thorough review to make sure that everybody who can benefit from being back-paid will receive those back-payments.
Melanie Onn (Great Grimsby) (Lab)
Given that fraud and error payments are usually published in official Government statistics together, is the Department planning on making sure that they are published separately so that the public are clear that the error lies with the Government and not with individuals claiming falsely?