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.
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 |