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DWP slashes benefit fraud.

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The amount of benefit fraud committed against the UK's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) fell from 2bn [pounds sterling] in 2000-01 to 800m [pounds sterling] in 2006-07, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).

The NAO's report stated that this was a substantial achievement, but it warned that welfare fraud still represented a significant drain on the public purse, and high levels of fraud and error were one reason why the DWP accounts had been qualified for the past 18 years.

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The NAO found that the DWP had implemented a well-defined strategy for tackling benefit fraud. The department developed a series of anti-fraud initiatives and the NAO examined six of these. It found that in 2006-07 these cost 154m [pounds sterling] to operate and had identified an estimated 106m [pounds sterling] in benefit overpayments. But these figures did not include the value of the measures as a deterrent or the savings of preventing these frauds from continuing. The report recommended ways in...

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