Social Security Benefits: Habitual Residence Test
(asked on 17th March 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Risk Review Team reviews cases in which no fraud is suspected but where it is believed there is a risk that the claimant does not satisfy the Habitual Residence Test.
This question was answered on 25th March 2022
The Risk Review Team only reviews cases where intelligence has identified a high risk of fraud. That may include claimants who don’t satisfy the Habitual Residence Test as they will have been receiving benefit they are not entitled to.