It's been estimated that the DWP lost £690m to benefit fraud in the last financial year. That's in addition to frauds on local authorities. Both feature in today's round-up. A Batchley woman pleaded guilty to offences of dishonestly claiming income support, housing benefit and council tax benefit totalling £11,447.37 by failing to notify the DWP and ...
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Monday 3 March 2008
Some lessons from benefit fraud cases