Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and Self-employment Income Support Scheme

(asked on 27th October 2022) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government what is their latest estimate of fraud and error from (1) the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), and (2) the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS).


Answered by
Baroness Penn Portrait
Baroness Penn
Minister on Leave (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State)
This question was answered on 10th November 2022

HMRC published the latest estimates for error and fraud in their 2021-22 Annual Reports and Accounts and accompanying Technical Note. In Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) the estimate is 5 per cent, and in Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) is 3.6 per cent. This is calculated on the net amounts (total paid out less unprompted repayments) paid to claimants from the start of the schemes to 31 March 2022.

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