Question follow-through · 906022
Social Security Benefits: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to help reduce losses from fraud in the benefits system.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 21 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 27 Oct 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to help reduce losses from fraud in the benefits system.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Oct 2025
Answer published
The department has made strides in turning the tide on fraud and error in the benefits system, with the overall rates dropping since the peak in overpayments in 2022. We welcome the recognition of this progress in the NAO’s recent report. We will continue...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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