DWP announces new 2,500-strong team for bank account and raids to suppress benefits
The Department for Work and Pensions has announced a massive 2,500-strong team to check Universal Credit claims, including potentially extracting information from bank accounts to see if fraud is taking place. The DWP said it had saved £1.3bn from fraud and errors with the crackdown over the last 12 months. Bug-fixing and fraud operations over… Read More »