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<p>As of the end of April 2023, DWP has 1,111 full time equivalent (FTE) employees
involved in investigating benefit fraud. This number does not include our compliance
staff, who carry out robust and challenging interviews to ensure benefit claimants
receive their correct entitlement.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>For the financial
year 2022/23, DWP estimated that the monetary value of benefit overpayments due to
fraud stood at £6.4bn.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-2022-to-2023-estimates/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-ending-fye-2023"
target="_blank">Fraud and error in the benefit system Financial Year Ending (FYE)
2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p>
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