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853308

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2018
	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	Universal Credit: Overpayments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claimants are re-paying benefit overpayments; what the (a) mean and (b) median value is of those overpayments; and what the average period is for those benefit payments to be recovered in the most recent period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	uin	130757
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department has a duty to protect public funds and has an obligation to ensure that in accordance with social security legislation, any overpayment of benefit resulting from a claimants error or fraud is recovered.</p><p> </p><p>There were 40,521 Universal Credit claimants who had a deduction from their Universal Credit as a recovery against a benefit overpayment (which related to their legacy benefits) within the last 31 days (in January 2018 the Universal Credit caseload was 730,000).</p><p> </p><p>The mean value of the outstanding balances is £1,082.50 and the median figure is £332.55.</p><p> </p><p>The information to provide the average recovery period will often fluctuate over time dependent on a claimant’s particular circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 07/03/2018 16:02:18 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

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	registered interest
	date	11/07/2018
	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	Universal Credit: Overpayments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claimants are re-paying benefit overpayments; what the (a) mean and (b) median value is of those overpayments; and what the average period is for those benefit payments to be recovered in the most recent period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	uin	163208
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has a duty to protect public funds and an obligation to ensure that, overpaid benefit payments are recovered in accordance with the appropriate social security legislation.</p><p> </p><p>I can confirm that there were 60,936 UC claimants who had a deduction from their UC as a recovery against a benefit overpayment within the last 31 days. This total includes both past and new overpayments.</p><p> </p><p>The mean value of the outstanding balances is £1,116.98, the median figure is £328.29. These cases include a small number of high value debts.</p><p> </p><p>The information on the average recovery period and the number of claimants re-paying overpayments at 40 per cent of their standard allowance is not available, and to provide it would incur disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 163209 question first answered 16/07/2018 16:31:47 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George