Social Fund

(asked on 9th April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many social fund loan cases have been moved from the social fund computer system to debt manager since 2016.


Answered by
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Will Quince
This question was answered on 16th April 2019

The migration of Social Fund debts onto Debt Manager commenced in August 2016.

From August 2016 to 10 April 2019 we have migrated 1.12m Social Fund debts onto Debt Manager. As claimants may have had multiple Social Fund debts, the number of debtors will be significantly lower than this.

We continue to build in the appropriate checks and balances to ensure that Social Fund cases migrate correctly. Where an incorrect balance has been identified we take steps to correct the case.

Corrections can be applied for different reasons, which mean we cannot estimate the volume of adjustments made to date.

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