Social Security Benefits

(asked on 18th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the (a) number of people who had debt deductions from their legacy benefits in each of the last 12 months and (b) total amount recovered in each of those months.


Answered by
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Will Quince
This question was answered on 21st January 2021

The number of people who had debt deductions from their legacy benefits and the value of those deductions for the last twelve months, are detailed in the table below.

Month

Number of people who had deductions from Legacy Benefits

Value of those deductions

Jan-20

205,700

£11.300m

Feb-20

199,200

£10.331m

Mar-20

200,100

£11.849m

Apr-20

181,100

£10.083m

May-20

162,300

£8.454m

Jun-20

95,700

£3.030m

Jul-20

9,000

£0.370m

Aug-20

66,800

£4.326m

Sep-20

70,200

£4.900m

Oct-20

70,200

£5.029m

Nov-20

72,500

£5.361m

Dec-20

75,800

£5.982m

We recognise that there will be some claimants who may be experiencing financial difficulty, and anyone unable to afford the rate of recovery proposed is encouraged to contact DWP Debt Management to review the proposed rate of recovery.

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