- Presumably we won't get the money back.
- That's more money we won't get back.
She "has made arrangements to repay the full amount", with monthly repayments of £120 a month for housing benefit and £50 for council tax. So far she has repaid £367.12.
Benefit fraud from around the UK
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The number of people reported last year for making a range of fraudulent claims rose to 49 – a jump of more than 100 per cent from 2007/08.Council officials "hailed the improvement", we're told.
One million jobless Britons have been living off the state for more than 12 years.This is Fraser's diagram of the numbers.
Official figures showed a further 1.9million have been on benefits for seven years or more.
More papers are now picking up the report in the Financial Times that many new applicants for sickness benefits are being rejected. Thus the Evening Standard: A new testing regime for sickness benefits is rejecting more than two thirds of applicants.The government's ridiculous benefit fraud figures put incapacity benefit fraud at £10m! - or 0.1% of the total paid out.
Data from the first wave of the system has suggested 2.6million claimants are actually fit to work.
The figures, seen by welfare experts but still to be released to the public, also say that in some regions up to 90 per cent of those on long-term ill-health payments should go on unemployment rolls.
Although yet to be confirmed, the results offer the Government a chance to drastically reduce the £12.5billion incapacity benefit bill.