DWP plans more benefit investigations and this is the evidence they would look at

The government has shared details of a £613m plan to tackle estimated losses of £4bn caused by a combination of errors and benefit fraud.

The plan, called 'Fighting Fraud in the Welfare System' will create a new team of 2,000 staff, whose job it will be to review more than two million existing Universal Credit claims. The new team will review the entitlements and circumstances of Universal Credit claims that the DWP deems to be at risk of being incorrect, including suspicious cases which entered the system during the height of the pandemic, reports the Daily Record.

It forms an attempt to save taxpayers' money from being lost to fraud and error over the next five years. The DWP plan reports that last year, there was an estimated £6.3bn of welfare fraud - up from £2.8bn from the year before.