DWP confirms ESA £5,000 underpayment update next month
The Department for Work and Pensions office in London.
This is fairly straightforward – although when the DWP announced it was doing this, I was among many who thought it was a cover for yet another purge of benefit claimants.
I wonder… When the report is published on July 8, will it include a section on the number of people the Department found to have been overpaid or wrongly paid, and from whom it is now clawing money back?
That might be interesting.
The DWP confirmed it will release a final update on progress of checking 600,000 Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) cases for underpayments next month.
In a brief statement on the GOV.UK website, the DWP announced the statistics will be available from 9.30am on Thursday, July 8 as part of the completion of the exercise – reports the Daily Record.
In the last update, DWP reported that 600,000 ESA claims started the reassessment journey, with 112,000 claimants receiving arrears payments.
The UK Government has already paid out a total of £589million in backdated payments, with claimants receiving an average of £5,000 in January 2020.
Source: DWP confirms ESA £5,000 underpayment update next month – Liverpool Echo
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Government accused of “creaming off” money that should be in the pockets of ex miners
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Under a privatisation deal in 1994, 50 per cent of any surplus from the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme goes back to Government in non-ringfenced funding.
The Doncaster North MP, who serves as Keir Starmer’s shadow Business Secretary, has demanded that ex-miners’ pensions are given an uplift instead of half the surplus from the pot going back to Government.
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politics/government-accused-of-creaming-off-money-that-should-be-in-the-pockets-of-ex-miners-by-former-labour-leader-ed-miliband-3285775