Carer's Allowance: Overpayments

(asked on 22nd February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have been asked to repay overpayments of carer's allowance in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Justin Tomlinson Portrait
Justin Tomlinson
This question was answered on 3rd March 2021

The number of people asked to repay new overpayments of Carer’s Allowance, as referred to Debt Management between April 2016 and January 2021, is set out in the table below:

Financial Year

Volume

2016/2017

17.5k

2017/2018

13.0k

2018/2019

37.6k

2019/2020

51.9k

2020/2021 YTD

11.5k

Total

131.5k

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