Universal Credit: Overpayments

(asked on 20th October 2025) - View Source
Questioner
Rupert Lowe Portrait
Rupert Lowe
(Independent - Great Yarmouth)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was overpaid to Universal Credit recipients in each of the last ten financial years.

Answered by
Andrew Western Portrait
Andrew Western
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 28th October 2025

This information was published earlier this year and can be found via the following link:

Fraud and error in the benefit system: financial year 2024 to 2025 estimates - GOV.UK.

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