Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 20 May 2022.
Kate Osamor
Labour/Co-operative, Edmonton
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of the cases reviewed by the Risk Review Team have been suspended as a result of suspected (a) fraud and (b) error as of 12 May 2022.
David Rutley
Assistant Whip (HM Treasury), The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
DWP does not suspend benefit lightly.
All the 175,826 claims suspended by the Risk Review Team to date have been as a result of suspected fraud.
None have been suspended as the result of error.
Yes1 person thinks so
No0 people think not
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