questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is his Department’s policy to remove sanctions from Universal Credit claimants who were wrongly awarded a benefit due to an administration error.
answerText: The DWP has taken significant steps to ensure the accuracy of benefit payments and the vast majority of benefit expenditure is paid correctly. The question is difficult to answer without the specifics of any individual case but the broad policy is as foll...
heading: Universal Credit: Deductions