The Daily Express
Benefit overpayments had reached almost Pounds 2.5bn during Labour's time in power, and an overcomplicated system had led to "shocking" levels of error, the Conservatives said yesterday.
Benefit overpayments equivalent to £104 for EVERY household have been made since Labour came to power.
THE unemployed and people on low incomes have received more than pounds 2 billion in overpaid benefits since Labour came to power.
Benefit payment blunders have cost taxpayers more than £2billion under Labour, it was revealed last night.
My latest Parliamentary Question has revealed a shocking level of overpayment of benefits caused by DWP Ministers' incompetence. So now the DWP's permanent secretary, in a leaked letter of 18 April, orders 'action teams' to try and sort out the chaos.
There is an urgent need to cut police paperwork and get officers back on the beat. But now Gordon Brown has piled in and pulled the plug on the funding for a new computer system that could have freed up officers to fight crime in Suffolk.'