Nike has strongly defended itself against insinuations that these overpayments were a form of kickback, saying that the indictment does "not allege that Nike engaged in criminal conduct" or that "any Nike employee was aware of or knowingly participated in any bribery or kickback scheme".
We'll save £1bn by cutting housing benefit fraud and overpayments and control housing benefit spending by tackling rip-off rents, getting 200,000 homes a year built, increasing the minimum wage to £8 an hour and giving tax rebates to firms who pay a living wage".
Next Veja reported on similar overpayments and kickbacks at the agriculture ministry.
In each case, direct compensatory payments would be made, although the commission is trying to claw back past overpayments by not giving compensation in full for price cuts.
No, says Mike Brewer of the Institute for Fiscal Studies: "Even if the system were perfectly administered there would be a lot of overpayments".
This raised the question whether for the poor, who have to budget and plan their lives carefully, "such inbuilt instability or uncertainty really works".One likely fix will be to raise the waiver, reducing the potential for overpayments.
In 2012, it projected savings of £2.2bn a year from reduced fraud, error and overpayments, but this month cut the figure to £600m.
Last month, minister for disabled people Maria Miller said: "In the past DLA has been poorly managed so we now have a situation where there are hundreds of millions of pounds of overpayments and the vast majority of people get the benefit for life without systematic checks to see if their condition has changed".
So far, however, all we've seen is a pledge to cut provider switching time, a bid to push regulators to simply do their job, a stern word about refunding direct-debit overpayments, and, inevitably, promises of another review.
However, a quarter of mortgage holders have no idea if their mortgage provider allows overpayments at all.
Nearly half of those people who have never overpaid on their mortgage still put money into savings each month, and given the average interest rate on these people's savings accounts, in the long-term they may be better off using this money to make mortgage overpayments instead".
