DWP writes off 645,000 benefit overpayments worth nearly £12million

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Hundreds of thousands of benefit overpayments have quietly been abandoned by the Government over the past five years. The losses amount to nearly £12million of taxpayer money that will never be recovered. The Department for Work and Pensions wrote off 645,488 overpayments since 2021-22 because the sums involved were too small to justify pursuing, according to figures obtained through freedom of in

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