DWP Accounts- Fraud and error in the benefits system

Public Accounts Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 26 Aug 2021 Closed: 21 Jan 2022 Parliament page
Fraud and mistakes in benefit payments rose again in 2020-21 to the highest level on record . The need to relax checks to ensure the record number of new Universal Credit claims in the Covid19 crisis could be processed and paid was a major factor in this increase, but the … Read more
1 Report
1 Oral session
2 Letters
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Activity timeline 6 events
21 Jan
2022
Report published
11 Jan
2022
Correspondence
17 Nov
2021
Report published
25 Oct
2021
Correspondence
9 Sep
2021
Oral evidence
9 Sep
2021
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
Oral evidence sessions 1 session
9 Sep 2021
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DWP Accounts- Fraud and error in the benefits system
Bozena Hillyer · Department for Work and Pensions Neil Couling · Department for Work and Pensions Peter Schofield · Department for Work and Pensions
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Twenty-Fifth Report - The Department for Work and Pensions’ Acco… HC 633 17 Nov 2021 0 Responded
Correspondence 2 letters
11 Jan 2022 Correspondence from Peter Schofield CB, Permanent Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions, re Treasury Minute 9: Fraud and Error - Recommendation 3 Treasury Minute 26: Department for Work and Pension’s Accounts 2019-20 - Recommendation 2, dated 22 December 2021
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25 Oct 2021 Correspondence from Peter Schofield CB, Permanent Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions, re DWP follow up to the Public Accounts Committee hearing on 9th September 2021, dated 6 October 2021
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