The Committee will question senior officials at the Department for Work and Pensions on how they managed benefits and employment support in the second year of the pandemic – including current levels of fraud and error in benefits payments - and ongoing efforts to address major delivery issues like the years of underpayment of state … Show more
| Title | HC No. | Published | Items | Response |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twenty-Sixth Report - The Department for Work and Pensions’… | HC 44 | 9 Nov 2022 | 31 | Responded |
We examined the Department’s systemic underpayment of State Pension in January
By the publication of its Annual Report & Accounts in July 2022 the Department estimated that 237,000 pensioners had been underpaid around £1.46 billion. This is an increase of 105,000 pensioners and £429 million compared with its best estimate as at 31 March 2021, but remains within the range of … Read more
| Date | Witnesses | |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Jul 2022 | Bozena Hillyer · Department for Work and Pensions, Elizabeth Fairburn · Department for Work & Pensions, Neil Couling CBE · Department of Work and Pensions, Peter Schofield · Department for Work and Pensions | View ↗ |
| Witness | Organisation | Sessions |
|---|---|---|
| Bozena Hillyer · Director for Counter Fraud Compliance and Debt | Department for Work and Pensions | 1 |
| Elizabeth Fairburn · Customer Experience Director | Department for Work & Pensions | 1 |
| Neil Couling CBE · Director General, Fraud, Disability and Health | Department of Work and Pensions | 1 |
| Peter Schofield · Permanent Secretary | Department for Work and Pensions | 1 |