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[holding answer 8 February 2010]: The available information is in the table:<Table width="100%" summary="" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" border="0"><thead><tr><th>Estimated overpayments due to fraud in 2008-09</th></tr></thead><TR><TD></TD><TD>&pound;</TD></TR><TR><TD>Continuously reviewed</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Income support</TD><TD>250 million</TD></TR><TR><TD>Jobseeker's allowance</TD><TD>80 million</TD></TR><TR><TD>Pension credit</TD><TD>110 million</TD></TR><TR><TD>Housing benefit</TD><TD>260 million</TD></TR><TR><TD>Incapacity benefit&sup1;</TD><TD>70 million</TD></TR><TR><TD>Instrument of payment</TD><TD>10 million</TD></TR><TR><TD></TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Occasionally reviewed</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Disability living allowance</TD><TD>50 million</TD></TR><TR><TD>Retirement pension</TD><TD>0 million</TD></TR><TR><TD>Carer's allowance</TD><TD>50 million</TD></TR><TR><TD>Interdependencies&sup2;</TD><TD>10 million</TD></TR><TR><TD></TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Unreviewed&sup3;</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Unreviewed (excluding CTB)</TD><TD>110 million</TD></TR><TR><TD>Council tax benefit4</TD><TD>50 million</TD></TR><TR><TD>Total5</TD><TD>1.1 billion</TD></TR><tfoot><TR><td>&sup1; All incapacity benefit figures are taken from the 2008-09 incapacity benefit continuous measurement exercise. &sup2; "Interdependencies" is an estimate of the knock-on effects of disability living allowance overpayments on caring and disability premiums on income-related benefits, which depend on the rate of disability living allowance in payment. &sup3; The rate of fraud and error on unreviewed benefits has been estimated. Where suitable proxies exist, percentage-of-expenditure results from reviewed benefits that are similar are used. Where such proxies are not available the average of all measured benefits has been used. 4 The estimate of fraud and error in council tax benefit is based on the results of measurement of housing benefit, adjusted to account for the greater proportion of pensioners in receipt of council tax benefit. 5 Columns may not sum to totals due to rounding. Note: Customer fraud in income support also resulted in approximately &pound;10 million of underpayments, which is not included, or netted off in this table. Sources: 1. Published National Statistics. 2. Fraud and Error in the Benefit System: April 2008 to March 2009.</td></TR></tfoot></Table>
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Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions
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Helen Catherine Goodman
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