Social Security Benefits: Bank Services

Summary

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to conduct a public consultation on the proposed powers for her Department's investigators to scrutinise benefit claimants’ bank accounts.

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1. 27 November 2024

   Written question

   To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to conduct a public consultation on the proposed powers for her Department's investigators to scrutinise benefit claimants’ bank accounts.

   Source: Commons

2. 4 December 2024

   Answer

   Fraud and error in the social security system currently costs the taxpayer almost £10 billion a year and, since the pandemic, a total of £35 billion of taxpayers’ money has been incorrectly paid to those not entitled to the money. This Government will red...

   Source: Written answer

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