The Government is cracking down on benefit fraud with a plan to save an estimated £4 billion being lost in fraud and error over the next five years.
The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) opened 18,691 investigations into alleged benefit fraud up to the end of March 2023, as part of the £613million drive announced last year.
More than 20 million people across the UK claim some form of benefit from the DWP, including Universal Credit and the state pension, and it took around a year - or 235 working days - on average in 2022-3 to complete a benefit fraud investigation, according to The Mirror.
