Investigations can still happen over the Christmas and New Year period
If you receive State Pension or other benefits from the Department for Work and Pensions , you could have your bank account and other financial activity monitored.
The team are set to review entitlements and circumstances of Universal Credit claims that the DWP deems are at risk of being incorrect, including suspicious cases which entered the system during the height of the pandemic - this review is expected to stop around £2 billion of losses due to fraud and error over the next five years.
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Unfortunately, you won’t know the exact details of an investigation against you until you are told about it afterwards. In the early stages of an investigation, you may not be told that one is underway until the DWP has assessed whether there is good reason to formally investigate a potential case of fraud. As soon as there is enough evidence of potential fraud, the DWP will launch an official investigation and you will be told.
If this is not consistent with the details of that person’s claim for benefits, that evidence may end up being used against them.
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