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<p>Our internal data from the last full financial year, 2017/18, shows that around
6%* of the individuals that were on Universal Credit at some point during the financial
year 2017/18, were overpaid and were referred to Debt Management for the recovery
of these overpayments. This figure includes fraud, claimant error and official error
overpayments.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>* The percentage figure has been calculated by
dividing the number of Universal Credit claimants who were overpaid and referred to
Debt Management for the recovery of an overpayment, by the number of individual claimants
that were on Universal Credit at some point during the financial year 2017/18. Not
all of the claimants would have been in payment.</p>
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