The project was aimed at government targets on reducing benefit fraud. Council officers decided that a mobile deployment was needed after visiting other local authorities that had failed to check enough benefits claimants to meet the target of the Department for Work and Pensions of Great Britain....
Bear in mind that it is believed the Bill will be based in part on a DWP policy paper released in May –Fighting Fraud in the Welfare System: Going Further– which led to the department facing questions over why it ignored concerns raised by a coroner about a disabled woman who...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is a failing organisation in a “state of crisis” and faces a “near collapse” of its benefits systems, according to a “devastating” dossier of evidence from its own staff. The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) this week accused DWP ...
The independent MP alsotold the Commonsthat Labour’s commitment to deliver the same level of savings on disability benefits as the last government had planned was “more than alarming”. She spoke out after chancellor Rachel Reevespledged in last week’s budgetto “reduce the benef...
The department also underpaid benefits by £2bn last year – 1.1% of the total – the same as the year before. The report noted that the year-to-year levels of fraud and error are not directly comparable because of differences in the way tax credits and Universal Credit are calculated....
For every £100 saved in a pension scheme by a man, a woman typically saves only £65, according to thedatareleased by the Department for Work and Pensions. The gender pensions gap is even more pronounced for people whose wealth is saved only in direct contribution (DC) schemes. This ...
Failure of the accounts at the DWP to satisfy government auditors for fifteenth year in a row; Lack of change in the amount of public money lost through benefit fraud and error; Benefits that are most prone to error.EBSCO_bspPublic Finance...