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806634

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date	14/12/2017
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	Employment and Support Allowance: Maladministration
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 7 December 2017 to Question 116610, whether his Department intends to pay to each claimant whose entitlements were miscalculated between 2011 and 2014 the full amount dating back to when the miscalculation was made.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	119710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department will be reviewing and paying arrears that are due to claimants affected. These payments will be paid from 21/10/2014 which is the Departments mandatory statutory requirement with regard to payment of arrears when a court or tribunal establishes the meaning of a legislative provision. Under this provision DWP will pay arrears from the date of the court or tribunal decision, which in this case is the 21/10/2014. The rule was most recently confirmed by Parliament in section 27 of the Social Security Act 1998, which received Royal Assent on 21 May 1998.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 119797 question first answered 19/12/2017 12:14:06 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

806721

registered interest
date	14/12/2017
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	Employment and Support Allowance: Maladministration
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 7 December 2017 to Question 116610, whether his Department plans to pay to each claimant whose entitlements were miscalculated in those years the amount they have been underpaid since 21 October 2014.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	119797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department will be reviewing and paying arrears that are due to claimants affected. These payments will be paid from 21/10/2014 which is the Departments mandatory statutory requirement with regard to payment of arrears when a court or tribunal establishes the meaning of a legislative provision. Under this provision DWP will pay arrears from the date of the court or tribunal decision, which in this case is the 21/10/2014. The rule was most recently confirmed by Parliament in section 27 of the Social Security Act 1998, which received Royal Assent on 21 May 1998.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 119710 question first answered 19/12/2017 12:14:06 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead