Universal Credit
(asked on 19th June 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 18 June 2019 to Question 264329, of the 0.749 million claimants with deductions from universal credit for non-universal credit debts, how much debt has been repaid from each benefit in the Prescribed Social Security Benefits / Payments category.
The table below details the amount recovered from Universal Credit to repay non-Universal Credit overpayments in 2018-19. To provide a full picture we have included recovery of all benefit related debt including such things as non UC Advances and Tax Credit recoveries even though these are not strictly prescribed payments.
Benefit | Amount Recovered |
Attendance Allowance | £1,000 |
Administrative Penalty | £537,000 |
Bereavement Allowance | £3,000 |
Carers Allowance | £1,541,000 |
Civil Penalties | £1,090,000 |
Disability Living Allowance | £281,000 |
Disability Working Allowance | Less than £1,000 |
Employment & Support Allowance | £2,988,000 |
Family Credit | £1,000 |
Housing Benefit | £11,198,000 |
Incapacity Benefit | £368,000 |
Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit | £1,000 |
Income Support | £8,479,000 |
Invalidity Benefit | Less than £1,000 |
Jobseeker's Allowance | £3,987,000 |
Maternity Allowance | £13,000 |
Non-Contributory Retirement Pension | Less than £1,000 |
New State Pension | Less than £1,000 |
Pension Credit | £11,000 |
Personal Independence Payment | £64,000 |
Retirement Pension: Contributory | £2,000 |
Sickness Benefit | £1,000 |
Severe Disablement Allowance | £12,000 |
Social Fund Loan | £27,014,000 |
Social Fund Overpayment | £239,000 |
Non - Universal Credit short term advances | £1,546,000 |
Tax Credit Overpayment | £94,722,000 |
Widow's Benefit | £70,000 |
Widowed Mother's Allowance | Less than £1,000 |
Widows Pension | £1,000 |
Widowed Parent's Allowance | £3,000 |
Christmas Bonus | £1,000 |
Other | £3,000 |
The Department works hard to prevent potential benefit overpayments from occurring. Internal and external data matches are increasingly helping inform benefit payments and alerting staff to check for any undeclared changes in people’s circumstances in real time.
*The data provided in this response has been sourced from internal management information and was not intended for public release. It should therefore not be compared to any other, similar data subsequently released by the Department. All figures have been rounded to the nearest thousand.