Universal Credit: Overpayments

(asked on 20th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claimants have received overpayments due to errors by her Department.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 28th March 2018

We do not have data quality assured data to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard.

The latest fraud and error publication which provides official error figures can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-2016-to-2017-estimates

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