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Universal Credit: Fraud

Written question asked by Steve McCabe (Labour) on Thursday, 5 September 2019, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 3 September 2019. It was answered by Guy Opperman (Conservative) on Thursday, 5 September 2019 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 22 July 2019 to Question 278344, on Universal Credit: Fraud, over what period of time the 52 pages were shut down.

Answer

As a result of internal work within the Department and pre-work with social media companies to identify accounts and determine their fraudulent nature, the first Social Media account was closed on the 9^th July. We continue to work with social media sites to ensure any pages promoting benefit fraud are closed and have closed down 71 sites to date.

Type

Written question

Reference

281564

Session

2017-19

Universal Credit: Fraud
Monday, 22 July 2019
Written questions
House of Commons

Subjects

Applications

Fraud

Internet

Personation

Universal credit

Link

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