Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 29494

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

Tabled: 6 February 2025

Answered: 11 February 2025

Question

Lee Anderson

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.

Answer

Andrew Western

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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