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Fraud and error in the benefit system

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Description

Provides estimates of total overpayments and underpayments across the benefit system. Covers financial year data.

Policy areas

Employment and labour market Finance and taxation Welfare and benefits

Update cadence

Ad hoc

Subject area

Benefit statistics

Publisher

Department for Work and Pensions

Published

20 December 2012

Data files

File	Type	Size
Nsfr Final 291112	pdf	60 KB
Fem 1112	pdf	763 KB
Fem 1112	xlsx	745 KB

Data files last checked: 28 May 2026

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