Benefit fraud and error cost £3.4bn
Around £3.4 billion was overpaid due to benefit fraud and error in the past year, an increase of £200 million, official figures have revealed.
27 Dec 2012
Around £3.4 billion was overpaid due to benefit fraud and error in the past year, an increase of £200 million, official figures have revealed.
Module One of the judge led Leveson inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the British press following the phone-hacking scandal at News of the World, took evidence in Module One of the relationship between the press and the public. The list of core participants, many of whom gave oral evidence at the inquiry for this module read like a roll-call from British public life, including celebrities such as the singer Charlotte Church and the actor Hugh Grant, as well as more private individuals affected deeply by press intrusion, including the McCann family and Christopher Jefferies, who was arrested in connection with the murder of Joanna Yates, and later released without charge. A number of politicians and police officers also gave evidence.
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