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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Rachel Charlton-Dailey

DWP benefit fraud raids are trying to make us forget who the real enemy is

“We will track you down. We will find you. And we will bring you to justice” No this isn’t Tom Pursglove’s audition to replace Liam Neeson in the Taken franchise, but the beginning of a video posted by the Department of Works and Pensions on Twitter this week.

The minister for disabled people goes on to explain that he’s at a dawn raid which is a joint operation between the DWP economic and serious organised crime team and the Met police to catch “fraudsters who are cheating our benefits system”.

He explains that “The Fraud Plan” as it’s known is about tracking and bringing to justice “those responsible for perpetrating £9 billion of fraud over the coming years”

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