Social Security Benefits: Fraud

(asked on 2nd December 2024) - View Source
Questioner
Alex Sobel Portrait
Alex Sobel
(Labour (Co-op) - Leeds Central and Headingley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many decision makers in her Department are working on cases of benefits fraud.

Answered by
Andrew Western Portrait
Andrew Western
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 9th December 2024

As of the 31st October 2024, Counter Fraud, Compliance and Debt (CFCD) Directorate has the following Full Time Equivalent (FTE) assigned to decision making:

CFCD Internal Decision Makers

Administrative Officer

Executive Officer

Total

181.2

148.6

329.8

*This covers both Administrative Officer (AO) and Executive Officer (EO) grades who conduct this work as part of CFCD’s Enhanced Review Team (ERT), Interventions, Investigations, Economic and Serious Organised Crime, and Compliance functions.

In addition, CFCD also refers some of the cases it reviews to decision makers within Universal Credit (UC). As of the 28th October 2024, this function has the following FTE assigned to decision making for CFCD cases:

UC Decision Makers Assigned to CFCD Cases

Total

110.03

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