Employment and Support Allowance: Underpayments

(asked on 21st January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she will be able to provide hon. Members with sub-national data on people who have been affected by the underpayment of benefits after transitioning from incapacity benefit to employment and support allowance.


Answered by
Chloe Smith Portrait
Chloe Smith
This question was answered on 31st January 2022

The Department published an update on the exercise to correct past ESA underpayments on Gov.uk on 8 July 2021. This reported that as of 1 June 2021, of the 600,000 cases checked, 118,000 arrears payments have been made totalling £613 million. This report showed the numbers of cases paid arrears at a national level only as the data was not available at sub-national level at that time. The Department is investigating the feasibility of providing this analysis at a constituency level and will pre-announce any upcoming publication in line with normal statistical practices.

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