Social Security Benefits: Fraud
(asked on 22nd February 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he is taking steps to improve investigations into benefit fraud.
This question was answered on 27th February 2024
In May 2022 the Department for Work and Pensions launched a robust plan to drive down fraud and error from the benefits system.
The “Fighting Fraud in the Welfare System” plan sits alongside additional investment of £900 million that will deliver £2.4 billion of savings by the end of 24/25.