Councils blow millions on benefit lie detector tests

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Lie detector tests haven't performed well in reliability tests. In fact they performed so poorly the Department for Work and Pensions gave up on them in 2010. Yet many UK councils in England still intend to plough millions into voice risk software in an effort to tackle fraudulent benefit claims.

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