Merseyside "Welfare to Work" provider pays back £146 overpayment: employee fraud
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A Freedom of Information request states:
I can confirm that from 1st April 2006 until 4th January 2010, one Welfare to Work Provider in Merseyside has had to pay back monies to DWP as a consequence of fraud. The overpayment was £146 and was the result of fraud by an individual employee of the company.
Welfare to Work, WhatDoTheyKnow.com;
However another Freedom of Information request states:
It is not possible to identify all recoveries of overpayments as these are typically offset against future payments due to the provider, and are simply reflected as reduced net payments.
Welfare to Work Merseyside, WhatDoTheyKnow.com;
A contradiction – I would say so.
Basically, offsetting means if a provider has received an overpayment of (for example) £3800, the next payment DWP sends will have £3800 deducted from it. Not all overpayments are fraud.
How do DWP know the £146 was fraud if they don’t keep any detailed records of such?
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I doubt many people or organisations would notice they received a overpayment of GBP 146 over a period of nearly 4 years.
Sounds to me like the person who responded to the FOI request doesn’t know the difference between fraud and a overpayment.
It’s the same with housing benefit, they deduct any overpayment from future payments.