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Originally Posted by martyh
because i'm not naive enough to believe that it doesn't happen ,also any government figures on fraud will be used to either prove they have control of the system or to prove that people abuse it so they can justify cuts in the system either way the figures are just guess work
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The figures reflect detected fraud, yes. It's fair to assume that not all fraud is detected. Undetected fraud can't directly be quantified but even it it's 100% that of what's detected, it's still going to be 2.5% of DWP spending.