Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the oldest debt was incurred for cases in which Universal Credit was reduced due to historical overpayment of tax credits due to an error made by an official in the last 12 months.
Tax Credit overpayments deemed by HMRC to be caused by official error are not transferred to the DWP for recovery where a customer makes a claim for Universal Credit.