An SNP MP has questioned the competency of the UK welfare system after compensation payments to claimants nearly doubled since 2018.
Figures obtained by David Linden, the party's social justice spokesman, found the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) paid out slightly over £580,000 in consolatory payments for gross inconvenience in the first nine months of 2022 - nearly double the roughly £320,000 paid out in the whole of 2018.
It is also an increase on the £552,000 given out the previous year. The DWP has now paid out more than £2 million in compensation over the last five years.
