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State pensioners face being penalisad by the Department for Work and Pensions - over the DWP's OWN errors. More than 220,000 claimants were subject to state pension overpayments worth about £109m in 2024/25.

Just 2,861 overpayments worth around £3.3m were written off by the department, with the remaining amount being incurred as debt by state pensioners.

The DWP defines an “official error” overpayment as one which “is not as a result of a failure to disclose or misrepresentation by the claimant but instead as a result of a departmental error”.

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A spokesperson for the department reiterated its commitment to bring forward the “biggest crackdown in a generation” on fraud, error and debt.

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