Social Security Benefits: Fraud
(asked on 5th January 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect the overall figure for benefit fraud to reduce back to the levels seen prior to March 2020.
This question was answered on 19th January 2022
We are developing the options for setting an overall fraud and error target. Targets will reflect the recent announcement of an additional £510m investment and the attendant initiatives we are developing to further reduce the fraud and error rate.
We will provide more information on this in our 2022 Annual Report and Accounts.