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Social Security Benefits: Fraud

Asked by Rupert LoweRestore BritainDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 27 November 2025UIN 93204

The question

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.

Answered by Andrew Western

The Monetary Value of Fraud and Error Statistics are not disaggregated by nationality and immigration status.

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