Website: www.dwp.gov.uk

Dear Mr Rymer

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request of 01 December 2009. You asked:-

`how much money have welfare to work providers had to pay back to dwp in the last 5 years for any reason'

It is not possible to identify all recoveries of overpayments as these are typically offset against future payments due to the provider, and are simply reflected as reduced net payments.

Yours sincerely

DWP Central FOI Team

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