Social Security Benefits: Fraud
(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, if she will publish the definition of fraud used by the Risk Review Team to determine which cases to investigate.
Answered by
David Rutley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 24th March 2022
The definition of fraud, as reflected in our annually published statistics on Fraud and error in the Benefits System, can be found here:
Background information: Fraud and error in the benefit system statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
The Risk Review Team’s role forms part of DWP’s increasing focus on stopping such fraud from entering the benefits system.