questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been overpaid to (a) Universal Credit and (b) Employment and Support Allowance claimants in each of the last twelve months.
answerText: DWP measures its overpayments via annual national statistics published each May. Latest published figures show that 12.8% (£5,540m) of UC and 3.4% (£410m) ESA was overpaid. These figures include fraud, official error and claimant error. Fraud and error in...
heading: Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit: Overpayments