Social Security Benefits
(asked on 23rd February 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department are taking steps to review internally decisions on waiving hardship payments.
This question was answered on 3rd March 2023
The Department is not reviewing decisions on hardship payments.
From January 2021 the Department implemented an affordability assessment process to which allows us to review decisions on imposing hardship repayments. Outcomes from this process may result in a sustainable repayment plan or in some exceptional cases we may waive the debt.