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1549015

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date	06/12/2022
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Overpayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December to Question UIN 95843, how many Universal Credit Official Error overpayments there were from 1 January 2018 to 6 December 2022.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	104306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) pays welfare benefits to around 23 million people.</p><p> </p><p>We are unable to provide information on actual Universal Credit official error overpayments referred for recovery, as there is no longer a requirement to categorise a Universal Credit overpayment, other than where fraud has occurred. Overpayment data (both estimates and actuals) is not broken down by region.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 104307 104308 question first answered 12/12/2022 16:02:34 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1549017

registered interest
date	06/12/2022
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Hounslow
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the answer of 1 December to Question 95843, what was the total number of Universal Credit Official Error overpayments in Hounslow from 1 January 2018 to 6 December 2022.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	104307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) pays welfare benefits to around 23 million people.</p><p> </p><p>We are unable to provide information on actual Universal Credit official error overpayments referred for recovery, as there is no longer a requirement to categorise a Universal Credit overpayment, other than where fraud has occurred. Overpayment data (both estimates and actuals) is not broken down by region.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 104306 104308 question first answered 12/12/2022 16:02:34 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1549018

registered interest
date	06/12/2022
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Overpayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will provide a breakdown of the number of Universal Credit Official Error overpayments from 1 January 2018 to 6 December 2022, broken down by region.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	104308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) pays welfare benefits to around 23 million people.</p><p> </p><p>We are unable to provide information on actual Universal Credit official error overpayments referred for recovery, as there is no longer a requirement to categorise a Universal Credit overpayment, other than where fraud has occurred. Overpayment data (both estimates and actuals) is not broken down by region.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 104306 104307 question first answered 12/12/2022 16:02:34 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1545361

registered interest
date	24/11/2022
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Overpayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the number of Universal Credit overpayments made in the last year in which his Department was at fault.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	95843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2022 answer text <p>The findings in the latest National Statistics publication (Financial Year Ending 2022) into Universal Credit (UC) show that UC Official Error overpayments have fallen in each of the last 3 years, from 2.1% of UC expenditure in 2018/19 to 0.7% in 2021/22.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 01/12/2022 16:19:20 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1545363

registered interest
date	24/11/2022
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Debts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit claimants have deductions attached to their claim for non-universal credit debts; and if he will publish a breakdown of the number of those claimants for each benefit.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	95845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2022 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The number of customers who had deductions from UC posted to non-UC debts on Debt Manager in October 2022 was 776,664.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the benefit to which the deductions were posted. Note that the total number of customers who had deduction posted, will be fewer than the number shown in the table, as some customers will have had deductions posted to more than one debt in the month of October, the period covered by the table, e.g., one debt ended, and another commenced.</p><p> </p><table><thead><tr><td><p><strong>Benefit</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Volume</strong></p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Attendance Allowance</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Affordable Credit Deductions Scheme</p></td><td><p>7,280</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Administrative Penalty</p></td><td><p>480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bereavement Allowance</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Carers Allowance</p></td><td><p>28,430</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CA Short Term Advance</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Civil Penalty</p></td><td><p>4,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disability Living Allowance</p></td><td><p>1,340</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disability Working Allowance</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Employment &amp; Support Allowance: Contribution Based</p></td><td><p>2,390</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ESAC Short Term Advance</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Employment &amp; Support Allowance: Income Related</p></td><td><p>17,930</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ESAIR Short Term Advance</p></td><td><p>90</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Employment &amp; Support Allowance: New Style</p></td><td><p>390</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Exceptionally Severe Disablement Allowance</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Family Credit</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Housing Benefit</p></td><td><p>86,120</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Income Support</p></td><td><p>42,330</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IS Short Term Advance</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Incapacity Benefit</p></td><td><p>1,250</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Integration Loans Scheme</p></td><td><p>2,310</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Invalidity Benefit</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jobseeker's Allowance: Contribution Based</p></td><td><p>410</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>JSAC Short Term Advance</p></td><td><p>110</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jobseeker's Allowance: Income Based</p></td><td><p>9,870</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>JSAIB Short Term Advance</p></td><td><p>540</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jobseeker's Allowance: New Style</p></td><td><p>1,280</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Maternity Allowance</p></td><td><p>140</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pension Credit</p></td><td><p>190</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Personal Independence Payment</p></td><td><p>1,640</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reduced Earnings Allowance</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Retirement Pension: Contributory</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Non-Contributory Retirement Pension Short Term Advance</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sickness Benefit</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Severe Disablement Allowance</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Social Fund Budgeting Loan</p></td><td><p>112,690</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Social Fund Crisis Loan</p></td><td><p>40,110</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Social Fund: Budgeting Loan Overpayment</p></td><td><p>180</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Social Fund: Community Care Grant Overpayment</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Social Fund: Crisis Loan Overpayment</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Social Fund Cold Weather Overpayment</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Social Fund: Funeral Payment Overpayment</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Social Fund: SS Maternity Grant Overpayment</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Supplementary Benefit</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tax Credit Overpayment</p></td><td><p>515,120</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Non-UC Tax Credit Overpayment</p></td><td><p>7,860</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unemployment Benefit</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Widow's Benefit</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Widowed Mother's Allowance</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Widows Pension</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Widowed Parent's Allowance</p></td><td><p>460</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Please note that the numbers provided have been rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p /><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 01/12/2022 16:34:02 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1543056

registered interest
date	16/11/2022
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Overpayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times his Department has used its discretionary waiver for Universal Credit overpayments in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	88884
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions waived 25 Universal Credit overpayments in the last year.</p><p>Waivers are only granted in exceptional circumstances, usually where the recovery of the overpayment is causing substantial medical and/or financial hardship, and it can be clearly demonstrated that the debtor’s circumstances will only improve by waiver of the debt.</p><p>However, any claimants struggling with the proposed rate of deductions are encouraged to contact DWP Debt Management to discuss affordability, so that a lower repayment rate can be negotiated as appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>More information on the waiver process can be found at Chapter 8 of the department’s Benefit Overpayment Recovery Guide:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-overpayment-recovery-staff-guide/benefit-overpayment-recovery-guide#chapter-8" target="_blank">Benefit overpayment recovery guide - GOV.UK(www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 22/11/2022 13:40:36 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra