Question follow-through · 43707
Carer's Allowance: Overpayments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of pausing the creation of new Carer’s Allowance overpayment debts until the conclusion of the independent review.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 2 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 7 Apr 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of pausing the creation of new Carer’s Allowance overpayment debts until the conclusion of the independent review.
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Apr 2025
Answer published
Overpayments have caused significant anxiety for some people. It is important to take the time to review what happened independently, to establish what exactly what went wrong and assess how to put things right. We will await the findings of the independe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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