Personal Independence Payment: Fraud and Overpayments
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the total amount lost to personal independence payment (a) fraud and (b) over-payment in financial year (a) 2023-24 and (b) 2024-25.
Answered by Andrew Western
Estimates of the levels of fraud and error in the benefit system for financial year 2023-24 can be found at: Fraud and error in the benefit system - GOV.UK
Below is an extract:
PERSONAL INDEPENDENCE PAYMENTS (PIP) | ||
| Overpayments | |
| FYE 24 | FYE 23 |
All | 0.4% (£90m) | 1.1% (£200m) |
Fraud | 0.0% (£0m) | 0.2% (£40m) |
Claimant Error | 0.3% (£60m) | 0.8% (£140m) |
Official Error | 0.1% (£30m) | 0.1% (£20m) |
The Department will publish the figures for 2024 – 25 in the upcoming year.
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