DWP hire 'surveillance officers' to spy on Universal Credit claimants

Yes Ignatius, this is their reward for 'working tirelessly, and doing the right thing' . Anyone heard that crap before. Only thing is, many dont feel they are.

It would be nice to see the 'performance' statistics of the DWP s Investigation team's? 🥴

Pintel wrote:It would be nice to see the 'performance' statistics of the DWP s Investigation team's? 🥴

We are IT!
Have you not been paid yet?  

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions/about/statistics
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5804/cmselect/cmpubacc/290/summary.html

Thanks @Oneman

From link:
"Under-declaration of income from work undertaken (Earnings/Employment) remained the largest source of Fraud, despite decreasing from 3.9% in FYE 2022 to 2.9% in FYE 2023."

So going after the individual Mino's ... As usual...

On further reading of the website, seem 'Underpayments' rates are going up 2022- 2023. No chance of these Dole-Starpo , informing claimant's of underpayments.🥴

"The total rate of benefit expenditure underpaid in FYE 2023 was 1.4% (£3.3bn), which was the highest recorded level, compared with 1.2% (£2.6bn) in FYE 2022."

Is this due to the heavy handed tactics ️of these people 🤨.


https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-2022-to-2023-estimates/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-ending-fye-2023#housing-benefit-overpayments-and-underpayments