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Dept for Work and Pensions

Answer

John Barrett: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will estimate the annual cost to his Department of (a) income support fraud and (b) Jobseeker's Allowance fraud in the last three years. [138390] Mr. Pond: Our estimates of levels of fraud and error in Income Support and Jobseeker's Allowance are contained in the following reports which are available in the Library. Year ending March 2000--National Statistics report: The Results of the Area Benefit Review and Quality Support Team from April 1999 to March 2000, Table 4.1 National Levels of Fraud and Customer Error in IS, Table 5.1 National levels of Fraud and Customer Error in JSA. Year ending March 2001--National Statistics report: The results of the Area Benefit Review and Quality Support Team from April 2000 to March 2001, Table 2.1 National levels of Fraud, Customer Error and Official Error in IS, Table 2.2 National levels of Fraud, Customer Error and Official Error in JSA. Year ending March 2002--National Statistics report: Fraud and Error in Income Support and Jobseeker's Allowance from April 2001 to March 2002, Table 2.1 National Results Overpayments.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

138390; 413 c1341W;413 c1337W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Costs Fraud Jobseeker's allowance Income support Social security benefits

Link

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