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Web traders targeted in £2bn tax dodge crackdown
News According to the PAC, the hidden economy could be costing Britain up to £2bn a year, with only two cases of tax evasion prosecuted for every 1,000 discovered in the case of the Department for Work and Pensions... [09 Dec 2008]
How to slash £1bn from benefits bill - use IT
News In the 2005/06 financial year roughly £1.9bn was overpaid by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) as a result of errors in the benefits system - with the complex nature of the rules governing the benefits system... [26 Jan 2007]
New IT systems add to massive benefits losses
News New IT systems have increased the levels of benefit payments made in error by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). According to a 2003-04 report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), the DWP... [11 Oct 2005]
80,000 DWP computers fall over after upgrade
News Staff at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were unable to use their PCs this week after a routine software upgrade knocked out 80 percent of the PC in the sprawling department, which numbers some 100,000 employees. [26 Nov 2004]
Online benefit rats just aren't British
Comment The DWP is now taking the line that the site is part of a more successful wider campaign that includes the hotline - though those figures are not believed to be very impressive either. The DWP claims... [07 Oct 2003]
Benefit fraud website nets just 24 cheats
News The site allows people to fill in a 'report a cheat' form that is followed up by investigators at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). A spokeswoman for the DWP said the Targeting Fraud website is... [07 Oct 2003]
MPs finger "inadequate" IT systems in £2bn benefit fraud clampdown
News "Inadequate" IT systems have been blamed by MPs for hindering the Department for Work and Pension's (DWP) battle to tackle an estimated £2bn a year in benefit fraud. However, the report accepted that the... [04 Jul 2003]
Benefit fraud holes cost UK £4bn
News Decrepit databases are costing the UK around £4bn each year in social security fraud and human error, the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted. Of the £13bn paid out in income support each year, the... [06 Feb 2002]
