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<p>Pursuant to the answer to Question 257458, of the 16,260 Universal Credit (UC)
claimants who had a UC overpayment, who were successful in having their UC overpayment
repayment rate reduced in 2018/19, there were approximately 18,450 individual overpayments
as a claimant can have more than 1 UC overpayment.</p><p> </p><p>To answer part (a),
the table below provides the classification of those overpayments:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Debt
Count</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Debt Classification</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>Fraud</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2,620</p></td><td><p>Claimant
Error</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>No Description</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15,740</p></td><td><p>Official
Error</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>18,450</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>To answer part (b), the table below provides general overpayment reasons:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Debt
Count</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Overpayment Reason</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>9,910</p></td><td><p>UC-Other
Benefit Not Taken Into account</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2,770</p></td><td><p>UC-Undeclared
Earnings not reported via Real Time Information or Late Self Reporting of Earnings</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1,840</p></td><td><p>UC-Housing
Costs Not Taken Into Account Correctly/ Incorrectly Declared</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1,130</p></td><td><p>No
Description</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>760</p></td><td><p>UC-Not Entitled</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>740</p></td><td><p>UC-Other
Income Not Taken Into Account</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>400</p></td><td><p>UC-Ceased
Caring or Undeclared Carers Allowance</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>380</p></td><td><p>UC-Non
Dependents Not Declared in Household</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>250</p></td><td><p>UC-Duplicate
Payments</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>UC-Childcare Costs Claimed When
Not entitled to All / Some</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>UC-Overpaid Health
Premium</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>UC-Undeclared/incorrect Savings
over Allowable Limit</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>UC- Living Together
Not Taken Into Account</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>less than 10</p></td><td><p>Attendance
Allowance/Disability Living Allowance – Severe Disability Premium Withdrawn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>less
than 10</p></td><td><p>UC-Undeclared Death Of Partner / Dependant</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>18,450
(Will not sum due to rounding)</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p><em>*All figures 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 similar figures subsequently released by the Department. All figures
have been rounded to the nearest 10.</em></p>
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