Social Security Benefits: Fraud
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department has attributed to fraud and error in each of the last ten years.
Answered by Andrew Western
The Department publishes estimates of the levels of fraud and error in the benefit system by financial year. These statistics are available for the past ten financial years and can be found at: Fraud and error in the benefit system - GOV.UK
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