Social Security Benefits: Overpayments

(asked on 12th December 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the total amount recovered in benefit overpayments as a result of claimants dying in financial year 2021-22.


Answered by
Tom Pursglove Portrait
Tom Pursglove
Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
This question was answered on 19th December 2022

The estimated amount recovered in benefit overpayments as a result of claimants dying in the financial year 2021-22 was £63 million.

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