Social Security Benefits: Fraud
(asked on 12th October 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many reports of benefit fraud have been submitted to the Department for Work and Pensions between 2010 and the most recent date for which figures are available.
This question was answered on 26th October 2015
The number of reports of benefit fraud received by the Fraud and Error Service (FES) from 1st January 2010 to 30th September 2015 totals 4,889,021
You should not infer from this information that an actual offence has been committed. This information relates only to allegations and not completed investigations.