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In the latest year, £144m was overpaid in state pensions by the DWP after a person's death due to delayed reporting. The department recovered £67.3m, leaving £76.7m in unrecovered overpayments.
A welfare loophole means the DWP is unlikely to ever recover the money
The Department for Work and Pensions overpaid an estimated £8.6 billion in benefits in 2021-22.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for welfare , pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK's biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million ...
A benefit fraudster is extremely unlikely to be investigated unless some third party reports them to, and provides evidence to, the police or the Job Centre (i.e. they slip up and admit it, or if they act in a particularly suspicious manner during a routine encounter with Job Centre staff, perhaps taking work telephone calls while at a signing-on appointment).
There were 54 overpayment cases which DWP referred for prosecution in 2023/24, down from 246 in 2018/19. Administrative penalties, as an alternative to prosecution, numbered 75, down from 774 in ...
In October last year, the government launched an independent review into carer’s allowance overpayments after it was revealed that the DWP was seeking to recover money from over 134,000 carers ...
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