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, how her Department defines benefit fraud.
This question was answered on 11th May 2023
The definition of fraud and error is set out in our publication on the Monetary Value of Fraud and Error in the benefits system. It defines benefit fraud as cases where the following three conditions apply:
- the conditions for receipt of benefit, or the rate of benefit in payment, are not being met;
- the claimant can reasonably be expected to be aware of the effect on entitlement;
- benefit stops or reduces as a result of the review.
The ‘background information’ section of our National Statistics publication provides further information.
Fraud and error in the benefit system: financial year 2021 to 2022 estimates - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)