Social Security Benefits: Fraud
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to tackle online sites advising people to claim for sickness and disability payments they are not entitled to.
Answered by Andrew Western
DWP collaborates with government partners, including Action Fraud, City of London Police (CoLP) and National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to identify malicious sites that impersonate the department, enable fraudulent activity or target DWP customers. DWP investigates sites hosting potentially malicious content to assess for fraudulent activity. Sites assessed as a potential threat to DWP and its customers, are referred to the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (part of the CoLP) who triage and assess for potential takedown within a 28-day period.
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