Correspondence Aug. 25 2023
Committee: Social Justice and Social Security CommitteeFound: The Carer's Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 – submission from Carers
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Source Page: Carer Support Payment: fairer Scotland duty assessment - summaryFound: Double payment s of Carer's Allowance Supplement were made in June 2020 and December 2021 in light of
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Committee: Social Justice and Social Security CommitteeFound: The Carer's Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 – submission from Carers
Jun. 26 2023
Source Page: I. Benefit and pension rates 2023/2024 [Revised]. 14p. II. Letter dated 19/0/2023 from Guy Opperman MP to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding the revised table of benefit and pension rates for deposit in the House Libraries. 1p. [Previous table DEP2022-0900]Found: thereof, above or between the amount of capital disregarded and any capital upper limit applicable CARER'S
Sep. 05 2023
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Sep. 05 2023
Source Page: Carer Support Payment: child rights and wellbeing impact assessmentFound: They also make provision to transfer the awards of these individuals from Carer's Allowance to Carer
Sep. 04 2023
Source Page: Carer Support Payment: business and regulatory impact assessmentFound: administration of social security in Scotland and makes provision for operational functions such as managing overpayments
Correspondence Sep. 04 2023
Committee: Social Justice and Social Security CommitteeFound: Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice Carer's Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations
Asked by: Margaret Greenwood (Labour - Wirral West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many debts of overpayments of Carer's Allowance his Department was seeking to recover in value brackets (a) £0.01 - £500, (b) £500.01 - £1,000, (c) £1,000.01 - £5,000, (d) £5,000.01 - £20,000 and (e) over £20,000 as of 1 February 2023.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
Table 1 details the number of live Carer’s Allowance overpayments the department is seeking to recover, by the value brackets requested, as of 1st February 2023.
Overpayment Value | Volume of Overpayments |
£0.01 - £500 | 55,010 |
£500.01 - £1,000 | 50,753 |
£1,000.01 - £5,000 | 27,761 |
£5,000.01 - £20,000 | 11,773 |
Over £20,000 | 270 |
Total | 145,567 |
Table 1 - Note: Data is for England, Wales and Scotland only, and represents overpayments held with balances greater than £0.00.
Table 2 details the number of overpayments of Carer’s Allowance for the last available year (2022/23) where the reason for overpayment was recorded as earnings over the Carer’s Allowance limit. The actual amount of earnings received is not captured. The bandwidths used therefore relate to the amount overpaid.
Overpayment Value | Number of overpayments (2022/23) |
£0.01 - £500 | 7,121 |
£500.01 - £1,000 | 7,271 |
£1,000.01 - £5,000 | 11,476 |
£5,000.01 - £20,000 | 835 |
Over £20,000 | 36 |
Total | 26,739 |
Table 2 - Note: Data includes devolved overpayments from Scotland but excludes Northern Ireland.
Table 3 details the number of overpayments of Carer’s Allowance there have been in relation to the earnings conditions for the past 5 years.
Going further back, the data excludes overpayments fully repaid – details of which are archived after 14 months and fully deleted after 7 years, which does not allow for a true figure to be calculated. Data includes devolved overpayments from Scotland.
Financial Years | Volume of Overpayments |
2018/19 | 25,761 |
2019/20 | 39,502 |
2020/21 | 19,742 |
2021/22 | 35,965 |
2022/23 | 26,739 |
Total | 186,268 |
Table 3