Question follow-through · 29494

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

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.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 6 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 10 Feb 2025
Answer: 11 Feb 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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6 Feb 2025
Question tabled
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.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
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11 Feb 2025
Answer published
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...

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