DWP ordered to pay thousands of people on disability benefits compensation | Personal Finance | Finance

It’s not the first time that a DWP error has resulted in benefit claimants being paid the wrong amount.

Earlier this week, the DWP said it was looking into whether Britons claiming Personal Independence Payments (PIP) could be owed up to £14,000 due to a Supreme Court ruling in 2016.

Now, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) is claiming that although the DWP has since dished out back pay to the tune of £613million to those affected by the ESA error – people should have been compensated on top.

The ombudsman said mistakes like these can have a devastating effect on people’s lives, as it did with one woman known as Ms U.

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