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Social Security Benefits: Overpayments

Asked by James McMurdockIndependentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 29 April 2026UIN 129353

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many instances of benefit overpayments to deceased claimants have been recorded since 2020.

Answered by Andrew Western

It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.

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