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Mum-of-two plunged into £22,000 of debt by bizarre DWP Universal Credit error

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A student mum was plunged into £22,000 of debt after the DWP demanded she give back over three years’ worth of benefits they gave her by accident.

Ms Rai, 31, told GloucestershireLive “I honestly don’t know what to do” after pen-pushers at the Department of Work and Pensions ordered her to give back the cash.

They realised they had been overpaying her because they hadn’t taken her student finance payments into consideration – even though she gave them all the documents she had.

She has two daughters and is currently studying to become a teacher at the University of Worcester. Student Finance payments are counted by DWP as financial earnings and after noticing she was enrolled on a course the DWP is now setting up a re-payment plan so the

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