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1145855

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	date	25/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Universal Credit: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to prevent third-party universal credit fraud.
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	uin	291055
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department has raised awareness of Universal Credit advance fraud via Jobcentreplus and a dedicated social media campaign, which reminds people of the importance of safeguarding their identity. The Department has also worked with social media sites to shut down pages that promote this type of fraud, with 125 pages closed to date.</p><p> </p><p>The Department remains committed to keeping all Universal Credit services and processes, including advance payments, under review, and are making improvements to address any vulnerability in the system.</p><p> </p><p>The Department now requires customers not only to prove their identity, but also attend a face to face interview at the Jobcentre before they can claim an advance. The Department remains on track with design and test activity to further reduce the risk of opportunistic advances fraud by using real time validation of key elements of the application.</p><p> </p><p>In each instance we are taking care to ensure that there is no adverse effect on our ability to provide advance payments to those who need them.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 01/10/2019 15:33:01 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 136339 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

1145100

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Universal Credit: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to prevent third-party universal credit fraud.
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	uin	287641
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p><p /><p /> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 09/09/2019 16:40:30 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George