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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Sam Barker

Thousands of Universal Credit claimants fight Government calls to repay pandemic cash

Almost 15,000 Universal Credit claimants say the Government is wrongly asking them to repay some of their benefits.

Many claimants allege they are being wrongly asked to repay some of their benefits because they missed a message or phone call from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

The DWP paused its usual face-to-face identity verification for Universal Credit claimants at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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