Fraud and error in the benefits system

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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

The House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts report, ‘The Department for Work and Pensions’ Accounts 2021–22 - Fraud and error in the benefits system’, published 9 November 2022 (available here: https://committees.parliament.uk/publica...) refers at page 11 to “savings generated by its £613 million investment in counter-fraud measures” which “would provide a framework against which its future fraud and error performance can be judged”.

Additionally, reference is made at page 11 to the development of a “reporting mechanism to demonstrate the effectiveness of its counter-fraud activities based on expected saving”.

Please provide a copy of the framework used to report how much money has been lost or saved for the taxpayer as a result of action taken to prevent error or fraud within benefits claims.

In the event that you determine some of the information I have requested to be exempt from disclosure, please redact exempt information with black boxes, instead of snipping or excerpting, and please state which category of exemption you believe applies to the information.

Yours faithfully,

Adis

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Dear Adis Sehic,

I am writing in response to your request for information, received 22nd
February.

Yours sincerely,

DWP Central FoI Team