{"value":{"id":1751369,"askingMemberId":1388,"askingMember":null,"house":"Lords","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2024-12-18T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-01-06T00:00:00","uin":"HL3597","questionText":"To ask His Majesty's Government what were the levels of overpayments in benefit expenditure by the Department for Work and Pensions in (1) 2022–23, and (2) 2023–24; and what is that as a percentage of overall benefit expenditure.","answeringBodyId":29,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Work and Pensions","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4147,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-01-06T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Levels of fraud and error in relation to benefit payments, as well as levels of overpayments, are outlined here <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-2023-to-2024-estimates/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-ending-fye-2024#total-estimates-of-fraud-and-error-across-all-benefit-expenditure\" target=\"_blank\">Fraud and error in the benefit system, Financial Year Ending (FYE) 2024 - GOV.UK</a> for 2023/24, and here for the previous year 2022/23: <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-2022-to-2023-estimates/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-ending-fye-2023\" target=\"_blank\">Fraud and error in the benefit system Financial Year Ending (FYE) 2023 - GOV.UK</a></p><p>Please see the requested information in the attached document.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Social Security Benefits: Overpayments","attachments":[{"url":"https://qna.files.parliament.uk/qna-attachments/1751369/original/Attachment.docx","title":"Attachment","fileType":"docx","fileSizeBytes":23595}],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1751369","method":"GET"}]}