Safer Ageing Week shows the scandal of fraud against older people
Charity Hourglass launched its fifth annual Safer Ageing Week campaign on Monday 11 November. Entitled ‘Take Note’, it runs from the 11 to 17 November and warns of the continuing…
DWP benefit fraud is the next Post Office scandal waiting to happen
The Labour government’s latest plans at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is a Post Office scandal-scale disaster waiting to happen. Specifically, the department – with a rapsheet of…
disabled woman WRONGLY accused of £28k fraud
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has wrongly stripped a disabled woman of her vital Personal Independence Payment (PIP). In a shameful example of the department’s callous and overzealous…
DWP benefit fraud in the spotlight once again
The now Labour-led Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has published its annual report. So predictably, it was prime opportunity for the right-wing hacks at the Times to punch down on…
DWP benefit fraud shock as department finds some real cases of it
For once, the waste-of-space fraud unit at Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has actually caught some real-life fraudsters leeching British taxpayers out of a tidy £53.9m. So naturally, the…
DWP hiring new fraud agents amidst more benefit claimant bashing
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is once again ramping up its benefit criminal rhetoric around Universal Credit. Specifically, it has announced its plans to hire 2,500 ‘external agents’…