Employment and Support Allowance
(asked on 12th September 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2018 to Question 167122, what information her Department holds on the number of people who have been underpaid employment and support allowance.
This question was answered on 9th October 2018
The Department is reviewing around 300,000 cases that were receiving contributory ESA only at 21 October 2014 and we estimated that around 70,000 of those cases may have been underpaid.
In addition, following the Government’s announcement on 18 July 2018, we are looking at around a further 250,000 cases that may have been affected before 21 October 2014.