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Written question asked by David Ruffley (Conservative) on Wednesday, 19 December 2012, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 7 January 2013. It was answered by Mark Hoban (Conservative) on Wednesday, 9 January 2013 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.


Social Security Benefits: Fraud

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the level of (a) customer error and (b) fraudulently claimed overpayment was in claims for (i) pensions credit, (ii) jobseeker's allowance and (iii) income support due to the incorrect declaration of (A) full-time earnings, (B) part-time earnings, (C) partner earnings, (D) capital, (E) dependants, (F) income, (G) a partner, (H) identification, (I) address, (J) housing costs, (K) other benefits, (L) college, (M) hospitalisation, (N) maintenance payments, (O) non-dependants, (P) a prison stay and (Q) other reasons in each of the last four years.

[135112]

Answer

The information will be placed in the Library.

The information is not available in the format requested for categories C, H and N. Such information as is available for category C is included in the tables under categories A and B; category N is included in the tables under category F.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
135112; 556 c329W
Session
2012-13
Related items
Deposited Paper DEP2013-0139
Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Deposited papers
House of Commons
Subjects
Fraud Social security benefits
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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