Social Security Benefits: Fraud
(asked on 3rd May 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any claimants who have had their claim suspended by the Risk Review Team have subsequently been convicted of fraud in the last six months.
This question was answered on 11th May 2023
Information on the number of claimants convicted of fraud after having their claim suspended by the Department’s Risk Review Team is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Since the beginning of December 2022, the Risk Review Team have reinstated 627 cases that were previously suspended.
The Risk Review Team currently have 108,362 cases suspended.