Question follow-through · 43925
Social Security Benefits: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times her Department has used (a) section 71 and (b) section 71ZE of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 to recover assets from people found to have committed fraud in each of the last
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 3 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 9 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times her Department has used (a) section 71 and (b) section 71ZE of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 to recover assets from people found to have committed fraud in each of the last
8 Apr 2025
Target answer date
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9 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Department has not recovered assets from the debtor, such as through a writ of possession or charging order, under either section 71 or section 71ZE of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 in the last five years. Debts under section 71 are curr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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