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Social Security Benefits: Overpayments

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 108329, tabled on 12 December 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the total amount recovered in benefit overpayments as a result of claimants dying in financial year 2021-22.

Answered on

19 December 2022

The estimated amount recovered in benefit overpayments as a result of claimants dying in the financial year 2021-22 was £63 million.