Social Security Benefits: Overpayments

(asked on 12th December 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the total amount recovered in benefit overpayments as a result of claimants dying in financial year 2021-22.


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Tom Pursglove
This question was answered on 19th December 2022

The estimated amount recovered in benefit overpayments as a result of claimants dying in the financial year 2021-22 was £63 million.

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