Universal Credit: Fraud
(asked on 17th October 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) individuals and (b) third party individuals investigated for universal credit fraud have been (a) referred for prosecution and (b) successfully prosecuted.
This question was answered on 22nd October 2019
The Department takes this issue very seriously and we are committed to taking appropriate action to deter this fraud.
There are 28 individual cases being prepared for prosecution and 1 successful individual prosecution.
There has been 1 successful third party prosecution and a 2nd third party case is due in court next month.