The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) may be monitoring your bank and social media accounts as part of a crackdown on benefits fraud.
Over 20 million people throughout Scotland and the UK claim State Pension or benefits from the DWP to help with daily living costs. Earlier in 2022, the DWP unveiled a £613 million plan to prevent approximately £4 billion being lost due to fraud and error in the next five years.
As reported by the Daily Record, from 2021 to 2022 there have been 600 convictions for benefit fraud across Scotland and the UK. The ‘Fighting Fraud in the Welfare System’ plan reveals that the DWP is putting together a team of around 2,000 people to review over 2 million Universal Credit claims.
