Question follow-through · 16667
Social Security Benefits: Overpayments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2024 to Question 15043 on Social Security Benefits: Overpayments, what the reason was for the increases in Monetary Value of Fraud and Error between FYE 20 and FYE
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 27 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 29 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 4 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2024 to Question 15043 on Social Security Benefits: Overpayments, what the reason was for the increases in Monetary Value of Fraud and Error between FYE 20 and FYE
29 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Department published a detailed account of its understanding of the reasons for the increase in overpayments in its Annual Report and Accounts for 2020/21. HC 422 – Department for Work and Pensions – Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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