<p>The DWP has taken significant steps to ensure the accuracy of benefit payments and, where underpayments are discovered, takes prompt action to rectify matters to ensure claimants are receiving their correct entitlement.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside the department’s well-established quality checking regime, our Targeted Case Review initiative will review 2 million UC cases over the next 5 years, checking entitlement and helping ensure people are receiving the right amount of benefit.</p><p> </p><p>Estimates of underpayments are set out in the department’s national statistics on ‘Fraud and Error in the Benefit System’. This is expressed in terms of both value and as a percentage of cases with error. In 2021/22, we estimate that £2.6bn was underpaid; the percentage of cases with an underpayment error is shown by benefit rather than as an overall figure.</p><p>Note that the percentages of cases with error reflects the average cases incorrect at one time, rather than the total number of errors over the whole year. We express this as a percentage rather than as a whole number.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-2021-to-2022-estimates" target="_blank">Fraud and error in the benefit system: financial year 2021 to 2022 estimates - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p>