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October 25, 2020

NAO report on Coronavirus employment support schemes

There is considerable risk that some employers committed furlough fraud by keeping employees working in lockdown, or by claiming payments and not passing them on to employees in full.
April 9, 2020

British managers of UK aid-funded Kenyan firm accused of questionable business practices

Successive International Development Secretaries, including current Home Secretary Priti Patel, failed to intervene to address the alleged mismanagement.
February 8, 2020

Ruling by Dutch court 'stops government attempts to spy on the poor'

A Dutch court has ordered an immediate halt to a digital benefit fraud detection tool targeted at poor neighbourhoods in the Netherlands because it violated human rights norms.
August 7, 2019

Committe calls on DWP to write off carers' debts caused by its own errors

The Work and Pensions Committee has called on the DWP to consider writing off debts due to its own protracted administrative failures.
August 2, 2019

An older person 'becomes a victim of fraud every 40 seconds'

People are now nearly three times more likely to be a victim of fraud than to be burgled, and nearly 19 times more likely to be a victim of fraud than to be mugged.
June 29, 2019

Department for Work and Pensions annual report and accounts published

Personal Independence Payment has the highest level of underpayments, at 3.8 per cent of expenditure.
June 10, 2019

Criminals targeting residents in council tax scam

Criminals posing as council staff are targeting people across the country in a new wave of council tax scams offering bogus refunds or threatening fines.
May 2, 2019

Charities and civil society groups warn over mandatory voter ID scheme

A coalition of charities, civil society figures and campaign groups have warned that the government’s mandatory voter ID plans raises concern that excluding those without ID will ‘pull up the drawbridge’ for millions of people.
April 25, 2018

FCA warns public of increased threat of loan scams

Financial Conduct Authority urges the public to be alert to the growing threat of loan fee scams targeting borrowers.
March 24, 2018

Corruption scandal 'may have cost Brazil eight times more than the £1.4 billion stolen'

As Netflix launches a major new drama based on the 'Car Wash' scandal in Brazil, Global Witness says the cost to the country may be eight times higher than the £1.4 billion stolen.