questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many alerts from the Verified Earnings and Pensions service informing his Department of carers’ earnings information were (a) passed and (b) not passed on to carers in each of the last five years; and whether he has made an assessment of the effectiveness of VEPs in preventing large value overpayments for Carer's Allowance.
answerText:  Rounded2019/202020/212021/222022/232023/24The number of CA cases identified through the VEP system91,00073,00096,000107,00067,000The number of cases reviewed by CA35,00038,00046,00050,00035,000 Overpayments are recoverable from the Carer where there is e...
heading: Carer's Allowance: Overpayments