Work and Pensions Secretary, Liz Kendall, has vowed to update her department’s 20-year-old powers branding their current investigatory capacities as ‘absurd’.
She said her inspectors we’re struggling to ‘keep pace’ with fraudsters duping the state, the Telegraph reports.
In the biggest shake-up in the DWP for over two decades, benefit fraud investigators will soon be able to recover debts of those who have overclaimed – directly from their bank accounts,
Officials have previously blamed an
‘increasing propensity’ for deceit across British society for the
continued increase of scams since the pandemic....<<<Read More>>>...
