Question follow-through · 28921
Pension Credit: Overpayments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value was of Pension Credit overpayments that were written off as resulting from official error in each of the last three years.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 5 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 11 Feb 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value was of Pension Credit overpayments that were written off as resulting from official error in each of the last three years.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Feb 2025
Answer published
Value of Official Error Pension Credit Scheduled Write Offs ValueFebruary 2022 - January 2023£28.802mFebruary 2023 - January 2024£24.858mFebruary 2024 - January 2025£27.856m Above table identifies the value of Official Error Pension Credit Overpayments w...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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