More than 8 million households received the £650 means-tested cost of living payment last year as part of the UK Government’s £37billion financial support package.
The payments were made automatically in two instalments, the first for £326 and the second for £324. The money was paid to eligible claimants in receipt of Universal Credit, Income-based Jobseekers Allowance, Income-related Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support, Working Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit and Pension Credit.
However, according to statistics from the recently published ‘Fraud and Error in the benefits system’ report, an estimated £330million of cost of living payments were overpaid to people incorrectly receiving Universal Credit and could see those affected having to pay the money back to DWP.
The total expenditure on cost of living payments was £8.4bn in the financial year ending (FYE) in April 2023. The report explains that estimates have been produced by “assuming that fraud and error could only occur when claimants were incorrectly receiving the qualifying benefit”.It continues: “In this situation, the claimant does not have entitlement to the qualifying benefit, and they are overpaid the full amount of the cost of living payments.
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