Social Security Benefits: Fraud
Commons · Question 16909 · Tabled 29 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 4 Dec 2024
Question
Asked by Gregory Campbell
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether recipients who have not been suspected of benefit fraudulent activity will be subject to having their personal bank account details scrutinised.
Answer
Answered by Andrew Western, 4 Dec 2024
Fraud and error in the social security system currently costs the taxpayer almost £10 billion a year and, since the pandemic, a total of £35 billion of taxpayers’ money has been incorrectly paid to those not entitled. The DWP is determined to reduce those...