The NAO is publishing a suite of Departmental Overviews, one for each government department and a selection of cross-government issues, to assist House of Commons Select Committees and Members of Parliament.
The Comptroller and Auditor General has reported on the 2018-19 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions.
This investigation examines the recent increase in identified errors in Carer’s Allowance and attempts to recover overpayments.
This report is about the Department for Work & Pensions’ support to help disabled people overcome barriers to work.
The C&AG has published his audit opinions for 2017-18 on the 1993, 2003 and 2012 Child Maintenance Schemes
This report considers: the Motability scheme’s customer offer and performance; Motability Operations’ financial model; and the scheme’s governance arrangements.
This Overview summarises the Department’s responsibilities on how it spends its money and its key developments of work.
The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his opinion on the regularity of the Department for Work and Pensions’ financial statements due to material levels of fraud and error in benefit expenditure.
In this report, we assess the value for money of the Department for Work and Pensions’ introduction of Universal Credit.
This investigation covers a single, major cause of underpayment error in ESA. This error relates to people whose existing benefit claim was converted to ESA and who were entitled to income-related ESA but were only awarded contribution-based ESA.
