Universal Credit: Overpayments

(asked on 28th March 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will write off overpayments of universal credit caused by official error.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 5th April 2017

Legislation enables the recovery of all Universal Credit overpayments, including those caused by official error. There are no plans to change the Universal Credit policy on recovering official error overpayments, a policy which is designed to protect the public purse. The Secretary of State does of course have discretion not to seek recovery in exceptional cases.

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