DWP Benefit Fraud Investigations

It may surprise some, especially given the current policy of reducing civil service jobs, to find that the number of benefit fraud investigators has risen from 2,700 last year to almost 3,700 now.

Most of this increase is due to Local Authority investigators now working directly for the DWP but it does seem to illustrate where government priorities lie. Especially as the number of tax fraud investigators looking at very rich tax evaders number only 200 in total.