A new National Audit Office (NAO) report has found that the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) as under-paid a key benefit by a massive 4.3% - that's equivalent to around £230m.
According to the Daily Record, the report found a 4.3% underpayment rate in Attendance Allowance. And while though it also found that there is also an overpayment rate of 2.2% - around £120m - .this means thousands of older people will be owed cash by the Government. The NAO report said the watchdog's estimates suggest that Attendance Allowance has the lowest rate of overpayment, but the highest rate of underpayment of all benefits tested this year excluding the State Pension.
That's according to the NAO's annual Fraud and Error exercise for 2021-22.
