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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
That is true, much more money is lost to error then fraud.
Of course I never said if I think the 0.5% is accurate but rather asked if he thought was accurate and he has answered my question now.
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I made a mistake. I have never claimed any benefits and misread the document. The number of different ones defies logic for someone who has never been in the system
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I quoted "disability living allowance" whereas your input quote refers to "incapacity benefit". The latter is quoted for 2008\9 as 1.0% fraud @ 70million.
If your request was an open invitation for comments then on that particular benefit the official figures for 2008\9 do not offer credibility to the author's claim. However there is a later document that claims the 05% fraud figure which supports the author's claim (Table 2.1 page 9) .... URL below. Begs the question of how the numbers changed so much in such a short time?.
http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd2/...ct08_sep09.pdf