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In the last 12 months Sandwell Council and APCOA Parking Enforcement has undertaken 10 successful prosecutions, alongside issuing 18 warning letters and cancelling a suspected false application.
As a result of their efforts the organisations were named as the winners of the Local Authority Risk Managers’ award for Partnership Working, 'for effectively implementing a scheme to target and address blue badge misuse in Sandwell'.
A council has identified that it was owed tens of thousands of pounds through investigations into council tax fraud last year.
The findings came in a Cardiff Council report on the work of the internal audit team which was presented to the local authority’s governance and audit committee on Tuesday, July 9.
Data published by the Department for Work and Pensions has shown the proposals to snoop on bank accounts will cost £370m to set up. The system would then cost £30m a year to run once it's set up from 2032.
The DWP has confirmed that it will at first focus its attention on the top 15 banks in the UK, which included Barclays, HSBC, NatWest, Santander, and TSB. These account for 97 per cent of the accounts used by people claiming benefits, reports Birmingham Live.
Fraudbusters saved more than half a million pounds in Brighton and Hove City Council’s housing department alone last year.
They recovered six properties and tackled tenancy fraud, according to counter fraud audit manager Simon White.
Mr White spoke about the results at the council’s Audit, Standards and General Purposes Committee meeting at Brighton Town Hall on Tuesday (25 June).
Aasim Johar colluded with a senior manager at Edinburgh University to perpetrate the crime against the institution over a decade.
A salesman was jailed for seven years after committing a £3.3 million fraud against a Scottish university.
https://news.stv.tv/east-central/salesman-jailed-for-3-3m-fraud-against-edinburgh-university-during-decade-long-scam
DOZENS of dead people were identified as still being on a council house waiting list, with nearly 100 more holding Blue Badges, during a fraud investigation.
East Lothian Council employed a counter-fraud officer last year as part of a new shared-service agreement with neighbouring Midlothian Council.
https://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/24380877.fraud-investigator-finds-dead-people-council-housing-waiting-list/
Rishi Sunak has promised to save the taxpayer £12 billion a year by clamping down on benefit fraudsters and reforming the welfare system.
The Conservatives will make a manifesto pledge to halt the rising costs of welfare by reforming the benefits system if they win the election.
A former Barnet fish and chip shop owner has pleaded guilty to nine counts of fraud after falsely obtaining Covid business grants worth more than £19,000 during the pandemic.
https://harrowonline.org/2024/06/05/former-barnet-fish-and-chip-shop-owner-pleads-guilty-to-nine-counts-of-fraud/#google_vignette
A new HMRC "taskforce" will begin a crackdown on payments made during the Covid crisis. A new HMRC fraud and error taskforce has been established in a bid to claw back overpayments made to UK taxpayers during the Covid pandemic.
The Treasury confirmed: "We have set up the £100m Taxpayer Protection Taskforce of 1,200 HMRC staff to combat fraud, one of the largest and quickest responses to a fraud risk by HMRC. 13,000 one-to-one fraud and error enquiries were opened in 20/21 and HMRC wrote to 75,000 people. We have so far stopped or recovered £743m of overclaimed grants in 20/21.
The former owner of a Derbyshire curry house who was sent to prison for Covid fraud has been ordered to repay more than £36,000.
Syed Hussain was jailed for 18 months and banned as a company director for three years in August 2023 after admitting charges of fraud by false representation and an offence under the Companies Act.
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