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You might receive an additional payment to help you move to Universal Credit, if you receive a Migration Notice letter.

• Updated: 27 August 2025

Benefit overpayments - how they happen, your responsibilities, making repayments to DWP Debt Management, appeal an overpayment decision, Direct Earnings Attachment (DEA)

• Overview

  Tell the office dealing with your benefit straight away if: you think…

• When repayments have to be made

  You may have to pay the money back if you’ve been overpaid. For example,…

• Repayments when someone has died

  The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) can recover benefit…

• How to make a repayment

  How you pay back the overpayment depends on: whether you’re making…

Find out when you can expect to receive a reply from HMRC to a query or request you've made.

• Updated: 25 June 2025

Check a list of recent letters from HMRC to help you decide if a letter you’ve received is a scam.

• Updated: 12 September 2025

Check a list of recent phone contacts from HMRC to help you decide if a phone call you've received is a scam.

• Updated: 24 February 2025

Find out how Income Tax and National Insurance contributions apply when you receive cryptoassets (like cryptocurrency or bitcoin).

• Updated: 28 April 2025

Check a list of recent emails from HMRC to help you decide if the email you've received is a scam.

• Updated: 11 September 2025

Ask HMRC to stop sending you a PAYE annual tax summary.

Advice for institutions on the financial support young people may be able to access to help them participate in education and training.

• Updated: 11 June 2025

Debts you owe (for example court fines, rent or Council Tax) can be deducted from your benefits – sometimes called third party deductions or Fuel Direct