Question follow-through · 66408
Social Security Benefits: Maladministration
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to prevent incorrect reductions in benefits due to automatic system sweeps that apply data errors without prior human verification; and what assessment she has made o
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 9 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 18 Jul 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
9 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to prevent incorrect reductions in benefits due to automatic system sweeps that apply data errors without prior human verification; and what assessment she has made o
11 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Jul 2025
Answer published
A claimant who thinks an incorrect assessment has been made can have the assessment reviewed. The number of data errors is very small. Fewer than 1% of Real Time Information (RTI) disputes processed are upheld in the customer’s favour. Where system change...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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