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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Ruby Flanagan

DWP criticised for not waiving Universal Credit debt caused by its OWN mistakes

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been criticised for failing to waive Universal Credit debt caused by its own mistakes.

In a recent court case, the DWP admitted 370,000 Universal Credit claimants had received overpayments classified as "official error" in 2020-21 - costing more than £228million.

However, just ten of these overpayments from that year were waived.

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