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Social Security Benefits: Fraud

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 17211, tabled on 2 December 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many decision makers in her Department are working on cases of benefits fraud.

Answered on

9 December 2024

As of the 31st October 2024, Counter Fraud, Compliance and Debt (CFCD) Directorate has the following Full Time Equivalent (FTE) assigned to decision making:

CFCD Internal Decision Makers

Administrative Officer

Executive Officer

Total

181.2

148.6

329.8

*This covers both Administrative Officer (AO) and Executive Officer (EO) grades who conduct this work as part of CFCD’s Enhanced Review Team (ERT), Interventions, Investigations, Economic and Serious Organised Crime, and Compliance functions.

In addition, CFCD also refers some of the cases it reviews to decision makers within Universal Credit (UC). As of the 28th October 2024, this function has the following FTE assigned to decision making for CFCD cases:

UC Decision Makers Assigned to CFCD Cases

Total

110.03