Social Security Benefits: Fraud
Commons · Question 29494 · Tabled 6 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Lee Anderson
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many reports of benefit fraud were made to her Department in 2024; and how many and what proportion of these resulted in benefits being revoked.
Answer
Answered by Andrew Western, 11 Feb 2025
The number of benefit fraud public referrals, received by Counter Fraud, Compliance and Debt (CFCD) in the Department, in the calendar year 2024 was 160,079. Data is not held on how many of these resulted in benefit being revoked.Counter Fraud and Complia...