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Universal Credit: Overpayments |
| Question ID: |
1756663 |
| UIN: |
HL4205 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-20 |
| Asking Member ID: |
3349 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Buscombe
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Baroness Buscombe
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what was the Universal Credit overpayment rate for the financial years (1) 2022–23, and (2) 2023–24; and how these figures compare to the forecasted rate used in the Spring Budget 2023 and Spring Budget 2024. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-03 |
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false |
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false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4147 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Sherlock
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| Answering Member handle: |
MaeveSherlock
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@MaeveSherlock
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| Answer text: |
The Universal Credit (UC) overpayment rate was 12.7% of expenditure in the financial year 2022-23, and 12.4% of expenditure in the financial year 2023-24. At Spring Budget 2023, the Office for Budget Responsibility forecast that the UC overpayment rate wo... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |