Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will ensure that clients who have overpaid their child maintenance payments due to departmental error will have those monies refunded within four weeks of the error being discovered.

Where overpayments of Child Maintenance occur, these are routinely adjusted from any future Child Maintenance payments due.

Where an overpayment occurs due to incorrect allocation to a case, action to rectify this usually takes place within 48 hours.