Report Benefit Fraud

Use the link below to report a suspected benefit fraud to the Department for Work and Pensions

What is benefit fraud?

Some examples of benefit fraud are:

not declaring you are working
not declaring the full amount of income, savings or capital
not declaring you own of another property you are getting rent for
false claims by homeowners such as inventing fictitious landlords
not declaring that there are other people, usually with income or savings, living in the property
claiming to live somewhere whilst subletting it and living elsewhere
failing to declare change of address while continuing to receive Council Tax discount for the old address

If you think someone is committing fraud it is important that you report it.

Provide as much information as you can about the person and why you think they are committing fraud.

The more information you give the better.

Iit may be the difference between prosecuting a fraudster and not being able to prove the offence.

We target our resources towards cases that we have a good chance of proving.

Every report will be investigated.

It can take some time and it should not be obvious to the person concerned that they are under investigation.

We cannot give progress reports to the person who reported the possible fraud.

If we can prove that a person has committed fraud we will do everything we can to recover the amount they have received fraudulently.

We may also: