Housing Benefit fraud and errors costs every family £70
The Department of Work and Pensions has revealed the shocking level of housing benefit fraud in the UK: last year £1.27 billion was lost in housing benefit fraud and errors. This is an increase of 30% in two years - at a time when the government has been promising to tackle fraud as a matter of urgency.
So what has gone so wrong?
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