An increase in the overpayments of housing benefit could
be because of an increase in the number of claimants in work, according to the
spending watchdog. The rate of error in payment of housing benefit - by
officials and claimants - went up to 4.4% in 2013/14 from 3.8% in 2012/13, says
a report by the National Audit Office. This is mainly because of claimants
failing to inform councils or give complete details of their changes in income,
although there is no fraudulent intent, the report released on Friday states.
‘The main source of claimant error comes from unreported fluctuations in
earnings,’ says the report Housing Benefit Fraud and Error. Download a copy of
the report from the NAO website.
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