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Tax Credit Investigations Local DWP benefit fraud teams are now taking over the investigation and prosecution of Tax Credit fraud. If you... Read More

Councils to team up with DWP In January we reported that local authority benefit fraud investigation teams will be merging with their... Read More

Given the time and attention that is devoted to benefit fraud both in the media and by Government, you might be forgiven... Read More

Those suspected of fraud may be offered the chance to pay a fine of between £350 and £2,000 in lieu of prosecution.... Read More

The DWP have recently started to use a new letter head on the letters they send to those suspected of benefit fraud.... Read More

Following on from a pilot scheme which ran last year it has been announced that all local authority benefit fraud investigation teams... Read More

Real Time Information DWP and local authority benefit fraud investigators are now using the HMRC ‘real time’ information from employers etc when... Read More

As we have previously mentioned the new sentencing guidelines for benefit fraud have now come into force and are being applied by... Read More

It used to be the rule that if a case of benefit fraud involved an amount of £2000 or less then the... Read More

The new Sentencing Guidelines for benefit fraud offences are soon to come into force.  We have been told they will become applicable... Read More