Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the (a) number of people who had debt deductions from their legacy benefits in each of the last 12 months and (b) total amount recovered in each of those months.
The number of people who had debt deductions from their legacy benefits and the value of those deductions for the last twelve months, are detailed in the table below.
Month | Number of people who had deductions from Legacy Benefits | Value of those deductions |
Jan-20 | 205,700 | £11.300m |
Feb-20 | 199,200 | £10.331m |
Mar-20 | 200,100 | £11.849m |
Apr-20 | 181,100 | £10.083m |
May-20 | 162,300 | £8.454m |
Jun-20 | 95,700 | £3.030m |
Jul-20 | 9,000 | £0.370m |
Aug-20 | 66,800 | £4.326m |
Sep-20 | 70,200 | £4.900m |
Oct-20 | 70,200 | £5.029m |
Nov-20 | 72,500 | £5.361m |
Dec-20 | 75,800 | £5.982m |
We recognise that there will be some claimants who may be experiencing financial difficulty, and anyone unable to afford the rate of recovery proposed is encouraged to contact DWP Debt Management to review the proposed rate of recovery.