Universal Credit direct payment demonstration projects - latest findings

Posted on: 17/05/2013 08:19
Link: http://www.24dash.com/news/universal_credit/2013-05-16-Universal-Credit-direct-payment-demonstration-projects-latest-findings
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The Department for Work and Pensions today published its latest report into the Universal Credit demonstration projects testing the payment of housing benefit direct to social housing tenants. Click on the link for full information....[MORE]

Legal threat over Universal Credit scheme

Posted on: 15/05/2013 18:42
Link: http://www.lgcplus.com/topics/benefits/legal-threat-over-universal-credit-scheme/5056201.article
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The LGA has threatened to take the Department for Work & Pensions to court if councils are forced to make benefits staff redundant because of the switch to Universal Credit. The sector body’s chief executive, Carolyn Downs, told the LGA’s executive meeting on Thursday that it had negotiated with the DWP for six months about whether 20,000 local authority benefits staff would be transferred to central government under Tupe conditions. Should the DWP decide Tupe does not apply, councils will ...[MORE]

Rent arrears to go up £180 under universal credit

Posted on: 15/05/2013 18:40
Link: http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/tenancies/rent-arrears-to-go-up-%C2%A3180-under-universal-credit/6526711.article
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Universal credit will lead to an average increase in rent arrears of £180 for each tenant, according to law firm Winckworth Sherwood nA major shake-up of the benefits system began yesterday with a pilot involving new claimants in Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester. Universal credit will merge several benefits and tax credits, including housing benefit, into one monthly payment nBut analysis of a separate universal credit pilot by Winckworth Sherwood found that the move to one monthly pa...[MORE]

Tenants rent arrears soar in pilot benefit scheme

Posted on: 15/05/2013 18:36
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21756567
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Rent arrears among tenants on a government pilot project that pays housing benefit directly to recipients have seen a big increase, figures show. One area is predicting a £14m loss if the new system is implemented for all its tenants, the BBC has learned nPaying housing benefit directly to recipients, rather than their landlords, will form a key part of the planned new Universal Credit nThe government says lessons will be learned from the pilot projects nIt wants to pay recipients directly a...[MORE]

Fraudsters cost us billions and find new ways to cheat

Posted on: 09/11/2012 11:16
Link: http://www.itv.com/news/2012-11-08/fraudsters-cost-us-billions-and-find-new-ways-to-cheat/
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If you pay council tax - get angry. What follows below could make you take a stand against the cheats costing us billions. For every law abiding council tax payer - this is an outrage. For those unable to access scarce local authority services - it is infuriating. Cheats are robbing billions from local councils. Now we have details of new figures and new cons. Fraud against public bodies is costing £20.3 billion a year - every penny sapped from the hard-pressed tax payer. Council losses accoun...[MORE]

Audit Commission Protecting the Public Purse report 2012

Posted on: 09/11/2012 11:11
Link: http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/e-ppp2012
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This report says that councils are targeting their investigative resources more efficiently and effectively, detecting more than 124,000 cases of fraud in 2011/12 totalling £179 million. But it urges them not to drop their guard, as new frauds are emerging in areas such as business rates, Right to Buy housing discounts and schoo nnnThe report gives the results of the Audit Commission's annual survey of English councils. It says that, despite these detection rates, more can still be done. The Na...[MORE]

Public Sector Fighting Fraud Awards

Posted on: 03/07/2012 13:51
Link: http://www.fightingfraudawards.co.uk/
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Every year in the UK, fraud costs public services an estimated £31 billion. Right across the public sector the fight against fraud has been re-energised and refocused. More and more public bodies are undertaking innovative pilots and initiatives, many of which are saving considerable sums of taxpayers’ money. This is important but often under recognised wor nThese awards recognise the efforts of those individuals and bodies within the public sector who have done most to combat and prevent fr...[MORE]

Government backs bill to criminalise subletting

Posted on: 21/06/2012 10:12
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A conservative MP has introduced a private members bill to parliament that would make subletting social housing a criminal offence. The bill put forward by Watford MP Richard Harrington had its first reading in parliament yesterday, and is due to be published ahead of a second reading on 13 July. If the bill is passed it would make subletting a criminal rather than civil offence, meaning it can result in a custodial sentence, and also allow the proceeds of subletting to be paid back to the so...[MORE]

DWP 'did not do enough to stop fraud among welfare-to-work companies'

Posted on: 21/05/2012 12:51
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/may/16/dwp-fraud-welfare-work-companies?newsfeed=true
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The National Audit Office has said the Department for Work and Pensions did "not do enough" to stem hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of fraud among private companies administering back-to-work schemes, even though it knew the risks. ...[MORE]

Three Jobcentre workers jailed for £1.7m plot involving 1,767 bogus benefit claims

Posted on: 05/05/2012 18:24
Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139690/Three-Jobcentre-workers-jailed-1-7m-plot-involving-1-767-bogus-claims.html
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Ringleaders were executive officer grade civil servants Abused authorised access to Department of Work and Pensions database to research claimants all over UK Made fraudulent claims for tax credits, Jobseeker's Allowance and Sure Start Maternity Grants ...[MORE]

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