Universal Credit: Overpayments
(asked on 3rd November 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many requests to waive recovery of an official error overpayment were (a) received and (b) granted in each of the last three years.
This question was answered on 10th November 2026
Official error overpayments within Universal Credit are treated the same as claimant error overpayments, as all overpayments are recoverable and we no longer track them separately for administrative purposes
The Department publishes estimates of UC official error overpayments available here: Fraud and Error FYE 2026 and also publishes data which identifies waiver volumes: Annual Report and Accounts 2025-26.