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<p>The table below details the amount recovered from Universal Credit to repay non-Universal
Credit overpayments in 2018-19. To provide a full picture we have included recovery
of all benefit related debt including such things as non UC Advances and Tax Credit
recoveries even though these are not strictly prescribed payments.</p><p><br></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Benefit</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount
Recovered</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Attendance Allowance</strong></p></td><td><p>£1,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Administrative
Penalty</strong></p></td><td><p>£537,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Bereavement
Allowance</strong></p></td><td><p>£3,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Carers Allowance</strong></p></td><td><p>£1,541,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Civil
Penalties </strong></p></td><td><p>£1,090,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Disability
Living Allowance</strong></p></td><td><p>£281,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Disability
Working Allowance</strong></p></td><td><p>Less than £1,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Employment
& Support Allowance</strong></p></td><td><p>£2,988,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Family
Credit</strong></p></td><td><p>£1,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Housing Benefit</strong></p></td><td><p>£11,198,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Incapacity
Benefit</strong></p></td><td><p>£368,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Industrial
Injuries Disablement Benefit</strong></p></td><td><p>£1,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Income
Support</strong></p></td><td><p>£8,479,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Invalidity
Benefit</strong></p></td><td><p>Less than £1,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Jobseeker's
Allowance</strong></p></td><td><p>£3,987,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Maternity
Allowance</strong></p></td><td><p>£13,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Non-Contributory
Retirement Pension</strong></p></td><td><p>Less than £1,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>New
State Pension</strong></p></td><td><p>Less than £1,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Pension
Credit</strong></p></td><td><p>£11,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Personal Independence
Payment</strong></p></td><td><p>£64,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Retirement
Pension: Contributory</strong></p></td><td><p>£2,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Sickness
Benefit</strong></p></td><td><p>£1,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Severe Disablement
Allowance</strong></p></td><td><p>£12,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Social Fund
Loan</strong></p></td><td><p>£27,014,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Social Fund
Overpayment</strong></p></td><td><p>£239,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Non -
Universal Credit short term advances</strong></p></td><td><p>£1,546,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Tax
Credit Overpayment</strong></p></td><td><p>£94,722,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Widow's
Benefit</strong></p></td><td><p>£70,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Widowed Mother's
Allowance</strong></p></td><td><p>Less than £1,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Widows
Pension</strong></p></td><td><p>£1,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Widowed Parent's
Allowance</strong></p></td><td><p>£3,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Christmas
Bonus</strong></p></td><td><p>£1,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Other</strong></p></td><td><p>£3,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p> </p><p>The Department works hard to prevent potential benefit overpayments
from occurring. Internal and external data matches are increasingly helping inform
benefit payments and alerting staff to check for any undeclared changes in people’s
circumstances in real time.</p><p><em>*The data provided in this response has been
sourced from internal management information and was not intended for public release.
It should therefore not be compared to any other, similar data subsequently released
by the Department. All figures have been rounded to the nearest thousand.</em></p>
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