A new law gives authorities sweeping new powers to detect and crack down on benefit fraud - but what penalties do offenders ...

The government now has the power to access suspected benefit fraudsters’ bank accounts and strip them of their driving licences under a new law. The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error, and Recovery) Act ...

Two years after a wave of public benefit thefts that left low-income Californians scrambling to pay rent and afford food each ...

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The DWP has explained how it uses bank account information to check the eligibility of those on benefits. The department has ...

Benefit fraud in Northern Ireland has risen from £163m to £233m in recent years, the communities minister has said. Gordon Lyons also revealed that each year government mistakes cost £40m and customer ...

The Trump administration has escalated its campaign against alleged benefits fraud, freezing social services funding for five Democratic-led states and announcing a new fraud-focused position in the ...

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