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date	2019-06-21
min answer › date of answer	2019-05-22
legislature › pref label	House of Commons
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Overpayments

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21/06/2019

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Department for Work and Pensions

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Work and Pensions

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Work and Pensions

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Universal Credit: Overpayments

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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2019 to Question 257458 on Universal Credit: Overpayments, how many overpayments were waived in (a) full and (b) part as a result of applications made by (i) claimants and (ii) their representatives in 2016-17.

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Birkenhead

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Frank Field

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27/06/2019

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In 2016/17 there were less than 5 successful applications for the full waiving of a Universal Credit overpayment and less than 5 successful partial waiver applications for UC overpayments.The Department has an obligation to ensure that public funds are administered responsibly and to abide by the principles set out in Her Majesty’s Treasury’s guidance on Managing Public Money (which can be found on gov.uk). Waivers are only granted in limited circumstances including where the recovery of an overpayment is causing substantial financial and/or medical hardship and clear supporting evidence of this is provided.We are unable to provide a breakdown of how many applications were made by claimants or their representatives as this information is not stored. *The figures provided in this response have been sourced from internal management information and were not intended for public release. They should therefore not be compared to any other figures subsequently released by the Department. We are not able to report exact figures that are lower than 5, therefore this has been listed as “less than 5”.

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Reading West

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Alok Sharma

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27/06/2019 14:34:56

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	label	Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead