Question follow-through · 88440
Social Security Benefits: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions his Department has had with relevant stakeholders on ensuring that vulnerable pensioners in the North East are protected from online benefit scams.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 5 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 12 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions his Department has had with relevant stakeholders on ensuring that vulnerable pensioners in the North East are protected from online benefit scams.
11 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Nov 2025
Answer published
DWP is taking a number of steps to protect our vulnerable customers from online benefit scams. This includes raising public awareness of benefit scam messages on the Gov.uk website. Our most recent press release relating to Winter Fuel Payment warned our ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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