Written question asked by Baroness Manzoor (Liberal Democrat) on Thursday, 21 April 2016, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Friday, 6 May 2016. It was answered by Lord Freud (Conservative) on Tuesday, 3 May 2016 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.
Social Security Benefits
- Question
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To ask Her Majesty’s Government, for each of the last three years, how many households containing children had an underpayment or non-payment of benefit as a result of official error.
- Answer
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DWP is unable to provide a breakdown of the number of official errors at the Local Authority level. This is because the estimation of the rate and monetary value of official errors in a particular benefit is based on a sample of cases rather than the entire caseload for that benefit, and this sample is not large enough to split at the Local Authority level.
DWP does not gather information on the number of children in a household when evaluating the rate of fraud and error in any particular benefit.
Secondary information
- Type
- Written question
- Reference
- HL7825
- Session
- 2015-16
- Grouped for answer
- Yes
- Subjects
- Children Households Maladministration Social security benefits
- Contains statistics
- Yes
- Link
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- 2016-07-05 20:05:08 +0100
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