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• Updated: 15 October 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…

Over the coming weeks and months, the 'gsi' in email addresses for the Animal and Plant Health Agency will be dropped.

• Updated: 31 January 2019

Follow these steps once you have decided to leave your course to avoid getting a further student finance payment.

• Updated: 26 October 2023

Tell the police and your insurance company if your vehicle has been stolen straight away - telling DVLA, vehicle tax refunds and personalised registration numbers

• Updated: 11 February 2016

How to find digital outcome, specialist and user research services on the Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework.

• Updated: 4 June 2021

Land transactions in Scotland before and after 1 April 2015 - how to get an urgent Stamp Duty Land Tax certificate.

• Updated: 8 July 2014

Get endorsement and approval to apply for the Global Talent visa to work in the UK as a leader in arts and culture - architecture, fashion, film, television.

You must stop your student finance when you suspend or leave your course early - find out when and how to repay your student loans, including overpayments.