Social Security Benefits: Fraud
Commons · Question 93204 · Tabled 20 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Rupert Lowe
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases of benefit fraud identified in the last five years involved individuals whose immigration status was later found to be (a) overstayer, (b) illegal entrant or (c) failed asylum seeker.
Answer
Answered by Andrew Western, 27 Nov 2025
The Monetary Value of Fraud and Error Statistics are not disaggregated by nationality and immigration status.