Question follow-through · 14641
Social Security Benefits: Debts Written Off
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate his Department has made of the amount of benefit debt written off in each of the last five years.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 30 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 13 Jul 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate his Department has made of the amount of benefit debt written off in each of the last five years.
2 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jul 2026
Answer published
DWP’s overarching policy is that debts should be recovered as quickly and cost effectively as possible without causing financial hardship to customers. To support this, the Department sets limits to how much can be deducted and a “deductions priority orde...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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