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Fraud and error in the benefit system: financial year 2013/14 estimates

Final estimates of total overpayments and underpayments across the benefit system in financial year 2013/14.

From:
Department for Work and Pensions
Published
6 November 2014
Last updated
17 November 2014 鈥� See all updates

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

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Details

This report estimates fraud and error levels in the benefit system in Great Britain for the financial year 2013/14. The main points from the report are:

  • 2.1% of total benefit expenditure was overpaid due to fraud and error
  • the estimated value of overpayments is 拢3.4 billion (a fall from the 2012/13 estimated value of 拢3.5 billion)
  • 0.9% of total benefit expenditure was underpaid due to fraud and error (the same as the 2012/13 estimate)
  • the estimated value of underpayments is 拢1.5 billion, (a fall from the 2012/13 estimated value of 拢1.6 billion)

As part of this release, we鈥檝e also published an updated version of Fraud and error in Housing Benefit: technical appendix on the supporting documents page.

Next release: May 2015.

More information

The final estimates on this page replace the archived preliminary 2013/2014 estimates published in May 2014.

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Updates to this page

Published 6 November 2014
Last updated 17 November 2014 show all updates

  1. Amended the 'Earnings' and 'Housing-related' amounts in the Infographic: Fraud and error in the benefit system, final 2013 to 2014 estimates.

  2. Published additional 'infobites' infographics.

  3. First published.

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