More than 60,000 older people who receive Attendance Allowance benefit could be owed money by the DWP due to underpayments. A new report by the National Audit Office estimates the DWP has an underpayment rate of 4.3% on this benefit.
It means that some £230 million is not being paid out. The overpayment rate for the Attendance Allowance benefit is 2.2%, or £120 million.
The Daily Record reports that these estimates suggest this benefit has the lowest rate of overpayment. It concludes that Attendance Allowance has the highest rate of underpayment out of all benefits sampled by the DWP in its Fraud and Error report for the past year.
