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Social Security Benefits: Coronavirus |
| Question ID: |
1805249 |
| UIN: |
HL7743 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-21 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4567 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Finn
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Baroness Finn
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the fraud and error rates of (1) the £20 Universal Credit uplift, (2) the suspension of the minimum income floor for self-employed claimants, and (3) the increase in local housing allowance, |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-04 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
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 £20 UC uplift - Our sample-based measurement of Fraud and Error levels found no significant difference between the rate of overpayments on the £20 uplift part of the payment and the rest of the UC payment. See section 3 of Background information: Frau... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |