Tuesday, 20 August 2013

Fraud crackdown saves taxpayers £6.5 billion - ...

Lord Freud, Minister for Welfare Reform, said: We’ve done a great deal to prevent fraud from entering the benefit system and to detect and punish those who try to play the system. With the introduction of Universal Credit we’re making it harder than ever for cheats to steal from the British taxpayer, reducing benefit fraud by £200 million a year.

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