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, what the timescale is for resolving cases of underpayment of employment support allowance.
This question was answered on 9th October 2018
The Department is prioritising the cases most likely to be affected.
We expect to finish reviewing and correcting the original 300,000 cases early next year.
We are currently assessing the timescales for completion of the additional 250,000 cases that are now in scope following the decision to pay arrears back to the date of conversion from incapacity benefit.
Our aim is for all claimants to receive the benefit they are due as quickly as practicable.