According to statistics from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), approximately £1 in every £15 of the total benefits bill was either falsely claimed or mistakenly paid out during 2023-24.

The DWP has issued a statement on how changes to PIP (Personal Independence Payments) have contributed to a "rise" in benefit fraud. Work and Pensions ministers appeared in the Commons to take ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has released a statement to clear up confusion following remarks made by a high-ranking official regarding the use of "other intelligence" to monitor ...

The forthcoming legislation will allow the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to recover illicit gains directly from the bank accounts of culprits and request clear financial records from ...

In 2018, Mr Furnival found out, via an annual statement from DWP, that from 2020, he would no longer receive Adult Dependency Increase (ADI) payments, a supplement given to households when the ...

The government has issued a response to new calls for the state pension to be increased and also for the winter fuel allowance to stop being means tested. In a petition on the parliamentary ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been slammed in a report that criticised its treatment of claimants with complex needs. The report by the by the Public Accounts Committee ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has provided an update about its ability to tackle benefit fraud. The government department said it will only be able to prosecute 'big' cases because of ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted it is dealing with a huge amount of cases and a massive court backlog. And they are prosecuting only the most serious "big, organised" fraud ...

Benefit cheats use one particular trick to swindle the system out of £10,000 a year, the Work and Pensions Committee discovered By Nicholas Dawson, Finance Reporter based in London, covering ...

An estimated £9.5 billion was wasted on fraudulent or mistaken benefit claims last year, a shocking new report has revealed. That is the equivalent of around £254 per UK taxpayer. Some £1 in ...