Social Security Benefits: Overpayments
(asked on 21st May 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to assess the impact of benefit overpayments on the public purse.
This question was answered on 5th June 2026
The Department publishes yearly estimates of fraud and error in the benefit system and the impact of overpayments on the public purse. The latest of which is available here: Fraud and error in the benefit system: financial year ending (FYE) 2026 estimates - GOV.UK and relates to benefit claims sampled between September 2024 and October 2025.