Social Security Benefits: Fraud

(asked on 14th April 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2022 to Question 137396 on Social Security Benefits: Fraud, how many of the cases of benefit fraud in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022 to date were reviewed at any point by the Risk Review Team.


Answered by
David Rutley Portrait
David Rutley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 26th April 2022

The information relates to criminal fraud investigations conducted between 2015 – 2022.

Risk Review Team interventions are not included in the data.

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