A 33-year-old Tracy woman was sentenced to nine years in federal prison for an unemployment fraud scheme during the pandemic, ...

Robert McKie, of Ryton, would not have been entitled to council tax support or housing benefit due to the amount of money he ...

Without a waiver, able-bodied adults would have to work at least 20 hours a week or spend the equivalent time in a workforce development program.

A benefit fraudster has admitted failing to declare work which resulted in him being overpaid more than £16,000 in benefits.

Judge Gavin Doig told the husband: 'I declare the benefit figure to be £22,385.21 ... felt like a 'weight had been lifted' when her fraud was uncovered and that she suffers from physical and ...

A man and a woman from the Upstate are among three arrested in separate cases of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, ...

The DWP has recently clarified its stance on the use of neighbours and surveillance in its investigations into benefits fraud ...

Last year in total, the DWP said £7.4 billion was lost to fraud from the benefit budget and another £2.4 billion to errors made by either the claimant or officials. The figures mean that every ...

An Attleboro bookkeeper, David Tetreault, agrees to plead guilty to tax evasion and stealing disability benefits.

DWP is planning to save £9bn by 2028 in a sustained crackdown on benefit cheats. This includes hiring additional staff to check millions of Universal Credit claims for accuracy, modernising ...

Tax agency reveals pilot programme and agreement with Home Office that enables border records to be used with the aim of helping to detect claimants that have left the UK HM Revenue and Customs has sh ...

The Minister for Transformation at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), responding to Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell's query on the cost of 'fraudulent Universal Credit claims', has ...