Swansea Council reports that between April 2007 and September 2008 it investigated 2,266 reports of benefit fraud, and discovered £1,036,082 worth of benefits had been fraudulently claimed from the Council and the DWP. "In the past 18 months, measures such as investigating tip-offs from the public, and working jointly with the DWP , led to 259 police-type taped interviews under caution. ...
Posted on The Purple Scorpion
Thursday, 18 September 2008
Swansea says benefit fraud totals higher
