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Council fraud team saves £1.1m by clamping down on system abuse and benefits cheats
Swansea Council says the impressive figure highlights its efforts against those who misuse public funds, with the fraud team uncovering significant overpayments and fraudulent claims.
Almost £470,000 was identified in social housing overpayments, alongside a similar sum in housing and welfare benefits, according to the council’s latest report.
Cllr Rob Stewart, Leader of Swansea Council, stressed the vital importance of ensuring that the millions of pounds of public money spent on services every year reaches those who truly need it.
He issued a clear warning that the council would take firm action against fraud wherever it is found.
“Among local authorities in Wales our fraud team has helped lead the way in seeking out, detecting and acting in cases of fraud,” Cllr Stewart stated.
He believes the counter-fraud team’s proactive approach has established a strong deterrent effect on would-be fraudsters.
The council’s ongoing work to tackle fraud is detailed in the counter-fraud team’s half-yearly report, which is being presented to the Governance and Audit committee this week.
The report also noted a low number of internal fraud claims within the council itself.
Only nine cases of internal fraud were reported among a workforce exceeding 11,000 employees.
Four of these cases have already been concluded, with five remaining under active investigation.
Cllr Stewart acknowledged that fraud is a widespread issue in society, and councils, like other organisations, are targets.
He noted that both individuals and more organised criminal elements attempt to defraud public services.
“This half-year report shows Swansea Council is not a soft touch and we will challenge fraud wherever we find it, aiming to bring to justice those engaged in such practices,” Cllr Stewart declared.
The council’s robust efforts aim to ensure that every penny of the millions spent on services annually is protected for legitimate use.
Residents are encouraged to report any suspected fraudulent activity to the council.
#benefitFraud #CllrRobStewart #fraud #publicMoney #socialHousing #SwanseaCouncil #welfareBenefits -
https://www.europesays.com/uk/725744/ How new DWP crackdown on benefit payment for pensioners will work #BenefitFraud #Business #EligibilityVerification #Finance #PensionCredit #PersonalFinance #PeterSchofield #TheGovernment #UK #UnitedKingdom #UniversalCredit #WorkAndPensions
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How new DWP crackdown on benefit payment for pensioners will work
Pension credit is one of a number of benefits the government is placing increased scrutiny on. (coldsnowstorm via…
#NewsBeep #News #Personalfinance #benefitfraud #Business #EligibilityVerification #Finance #PensionCredit #PersonalFinance #PeterSchofield #Thegovernment #UK #UnitedKingdom #universalcredit #WorkandPensions
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Dr. Oz touts health care fraud crackdown on L.A. ‘foreign influences’
Trump administration officials announced a sprawling probe into benefits fraud across California on Friday,…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Healthcare #Americans #benefitfraud #BillEssayli #California #childcare #dollar #dr.oz #foreigninfluence #friday #Health #homehealthcarebilling #LosAngelesTimes #Minnesota #state #trumpadministrationofficial #wholecountry
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Dr. Oz touts health care fraud crackdown on L.A. ‘foreign influences’
Trump administration officials announced a sprawling probe into benefits fraud across California on Friday,…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Healthcare #Americans #benefitfraud #BillEssayli #California #childcare #dollar #dr.oz #foreigninfluence #friday #Health #homehealthcarebilling #LosAngelesTimes #Minnesota #state #trumpadministrationofficial #wholecountry
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/209685/ Anyone on DWP benefits warned they could be breaking 3 rules if they p | Personal Finance | Finance #BenefitFraud #Business #DWP #DWPBenefits #Finance #Fraud #Holiday #HolidayAbroad #PersonalFinance #SocialSecurityAgreements #UK #UnitedKingdom
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/195252/ DWP alert as Brits going on holiday could have payments paused | Personal Finance | Finance #AttendanceAllowance #BenefitClaimants #BenefitFraud.DWPBenefitHolidayRules #Benefits #Business #disabilities #DWP #DWPBenefitRulesHoliday #DWPLatest #DWPNews #Finance #Fraud #Holiday #HolidayPayments #PensionCredit #PersonalFinance #PIP #UK #UnitedKingdom #UniversalCredit
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/114331/ DWP benefits ‘termination’ alert as 20 changes must be reported | Personal Finance | Finance #BenefitFraud #Business #ChildBenefit #DWP #DWPBenefits #Finance #OverpaymentsAndUnderpayments. #PersonalFinance #ReportingChanges #UK #UnitedKingdom #UniversalCredit
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Prosecution of people who help clients evade tax in UK falls by 75% in five years -
We ignore tax evasion but concentrate on (real and imagined) benefit fraud. 🤥
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/30/prosecution-of-people-who-help-clients-evade-tax-in-uk-falls-by-75-in-five-years
#taxevasion #taxfraud #benefitfraud #UK -
Prosecution of people who help clients evade tax in UK falls by 75% in five years -
We ignore tax evasion but concentrate on (real and imagined) benefit fraud. 🤥
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/30/prosecution-of-people-who-help-clients-evade-tax-in-uk-falls-by-75-in-five-years
#taxevasion #taxfraud #benefitfraud #UK -
Prosecution of people who help clients evade tax in UK falls by 75% in five years -
We ignore tax evasion but concentrate on (real and imagined) benefit fraud. 🤥
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/30/prosecution-of-people-who-help-clients-evade-tax-in-uk-falls-by-75-in-five-years
#taxevasion #taxfraud #benefitfraud #UK -
Prosecution of people who help clients evade tax in UK falls by 75% in five years -
We ignore tax evasion but concentrate on (real and imagined) benefit fraud. 🤥
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/30/prosecution-of-people-who-help-clients-evade-tax-in-uk-falls-by-75-in-five-years
#taxevasion #taxfraud #benefitfraud #UK -
Prosecution of people who help clients evade tax in UK falls by 75% in five years -
We ignore tax evasion but concentrate on (real and imagined) benefit fraud. 🤥
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/30/prosecution-of-people-who-help-clients-evade-tax-in-uk-falls-by-75-in-five-years
#taxevasion #taxfraud #benefitfraud #UK -
Why is the government obsessed with benefit fraud? eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/fin... #TaxFraud #BenefitFraud
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Why is the government obsessed with benefit fraud?
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Why is the government obsessed with benefit fraud?
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Why is the government obsessed with benefit fraud?
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Why is the government obsessed with benefit fraud?
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Why is the government obsessed with benefit fraud?
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Always remember that when the government introduce tough new measures to combat benefit fraud (something mostly done by People Who Are Not Like Us) without introducing equivalent methods to combat tax fraud (which costs more, but mostly done by People Who Are Like Us), it's not about saving the government's money, it's about entrenching the privilege of People Who Are Like Us
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Always remember that when the government introduce tough new measures to combat benefit fraud (something mostly done by People Who Are Not Like Us) without introducing equivalent methods to combat tax fraud (which costs more, but mostly done by People Who Are Like Us), it's not about saving the government's money, it's about entrenching the privilege of People Who Are Like Us
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Always remember that when the government introduce tough new measures to combat benefit fraud (something mostly done by People Who Are Not Like Us) without introducing equivalent methods to combat tax fraud (which costs more, but mostly done by People Who Are Like Us), it's not about saving the government's money, it's about entrenching the privilege of People Who Are Like Us
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Always remember that when the government introduce tough new measures to combat benefit fraud (something mostly done by People Who Are Not Like Us) without introducing equivalent methods to combat tax fraud (which costs more, but mostly done by People Who Are Like Us), it's not about saving the government's money, it's about entrenching the privilege of People Who Are Like Us
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Always remember that when the government introduce tough new measures to combat benefit fraud (something mostly done by People Who Are Not Like Us) without introducing equivalent methods to combat tax fraud (which costs more, but mostly done by People Who Are Like Us), it's not about saving the government's money, it's about entrenching the privilege of People Who Are Like Us
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Will they do this for the Rich too?
Of course not. -
Will they do this for the Rich too?
Of course not. -
Will they do this for the Rich too?
Of course not. -
Will they do this for the Rich too?
Of course not. -
Will they do this for the Rich too?
Of course not. -
Okay, so I'm officially poor now.
This whole "the poor are taking away all of our money" that everybody always talks about, can someone tell me how to do that?
#BenefitFraud #WelfareFraud #ExploitingTheSocialSystem #SocialSystem
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Okay, so I'm officially poor now.
This whole "the poor are taking away all of our money" that everybody always talks about, can someone tell me how to do that?
#BenefitFraud #WelfareFraud #ExploitingTheSocialSystem #SocialSystem
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Okay, so I'm officially poor now.
This whole "the poor are taking away all of our money" that everybody always talks about, can someone tell me how to do that?
#BenefitFraud #WelfareFraud #ExploitingTheSocialSystem #SocialSystem
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Okay, so I'm officially poor now.
This whole "the poor are taking away all of our money" that everybody always talks about, can someone tell me how to do that?
#BenefitFraud #WelfareFraud #ExploitingTheSocialSystem #SocialSystem
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Okay, so I'm officially poor now.
This whole "the poor are taking away all of our money" that everybody always talks about, can someone tell me how to do that?
#BenefitFraud #WelfareFraud #ExploitingTheSocialSystem #SocialSystem
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Sunak tries to win back old bigots by threatening disabled people
https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2024/06/09/sunak-stride-dwp-reforms/#Tories
#Sunak
#Bigots
#Ableism
#Disabled
#Propoganda
#Welfare
#WelfarePropoganda
#Hunt
#Stride
#ImaginaryBenefitFraud
#Fraud
#Benefits
#BenefitFraud
#MentalHealth
#ForcedMentalHealthTreatment
#ForcedTreatment
#DWP
#Starmer -
Sunak tries to win back old bigots by threatening disabled people
https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2024/06/09/sunak-stride-dwp-reforms/#Tories
#Sunak
#Bigots
#Ableism
#Disabled
#Propoganda
#Welfare
#WelfarePropoganda
#Hunt
#Stride
#ImaginaryBenefitFraud
#Fraud
#Benefits
#BenefitFraud
#MentalHealth
#ForcedMentalHealthTreatment
#ForcedTreatment
#DWP
#Starmer -
Sunak tries to win back old bigots by threatening disabled people
https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2024/06/09/sunak-stride-dwp-reforms/#Tories
#Sunak
#Bigots
#Ableism
#Disabled
#Propoganda
#Welfare
#WelfarePropoganda
#Hunt
#Stride
#ImaginaryBenefitFraud
#Fraud
#Benefits
#BenefitFraud
#MentalHealth
#ForcedMentalHealthTreatment
#ForcedTreatment
#DWP
#Starmer -
Sunak tries to win back old bigots by threatening disabled people
https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2024/06/09/sunak-stride-dwp-reforms/#Tories
#Sunak
#Bigots
#Ableism
#Disabled
#Propoganda
#Welfare
#WelfarePropoganda
#Hunt
#Stride
#ImaginaryBenefitFraud
#Fraud
#Benefits
#BenefitFraud
#MentalHealth
#ForcedMentalHealthTreatment
#ForcedTreatment
#DWP
#Starmer -
Sunak tries to win back old bigots by threatening disabled people
https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2024/06/09/sunak-stride-dwp-reforms/#Tories
#Sunak
#Bigots
#Ableism
#Disabled
#Propoganda
#Welfare
#WelfarePropoganda
#Hunt
#Stride
#ImaginaryBenefitFraud
#Fraud
#Benefits
#BenefitFraud
#MentalHealth
#ForcedMentalHealthTreatment
#ForcedTreatment
#DWP
#Starmer -
'£260 billion *a day* is lost to #TaxEvasion & #TaxAvoidance combined. That's over 260 times #BenefitFraud'
Why are left-wing politicians unable to drill these facts with all the evidence to support them until they're etched in voters' brains?
#Plutocracy #Plutonomy #UKLabour #ClassWar #WhyWeCantAffordTheRich
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'£260 billion *a day* is lost to #TaxEvasion & #TaxAvoidance combined. That's over 260 times #BenefitFraud'
Why are left-wing politicians unable to drill these facts with all the evidence to support them until they're etched in voters' brains?
#Plutocracy #Plutonomy #UKLabour #ClassWar #WhyWeCantAffordTheRich
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'£260 billion *a day* is lost to #TaxEvasion & #TaxAvoidance combined. That's over 260 times #BenefitFraud'
Why are left-wing politicians unable to drill these facts with all the evidence to support them until they're etched in voters' brains?
#Plutocracy #Plutonomy #UKLabour #ClassWar #WhyWeCantAffordTheRich
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'£260 billion *a day* is lost to #TaxEvasion & #TaxAvoidance combined. That's over 260 times #BenefitFraud'
Why are left-wing politicians unable to drill these facts with all the evidence to support them until they're etched in voters' brains?
#Plutocracy #Plutonomy #UKLabour #ClassWar #WhyWeCantAffordTheRich
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'£260 billion *a day* is lost to #TaxEvasion & #TaxAvoidance combined. That's over 260 times #BenefitFraud'
Why are left-wing politicians unable to drill these facts with all the evidence to support them until they're etched in voters' brains?
#Plutocracy #Plutonomy #UKLabour #ClassWar #WhyWeCantAffordTheRich
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DWP benefit fraud shock as department finds some real cases of it
https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2024/05/30/dwp-benefit-fraud-claim/#DWP
#Fraud
#BenefitFraud
#GBNews
#PIP
#Canary
#TargetedCaseReview