Fraudulent claims made by people trying to buy council
homes under Right To Buy legislation rose in Oxford from £385k to £2.7m last
year, new figures show. The city council's fraud investigation team stopped 35 applications
in 2015-16, which could have cost taxpayers as much as £77,900 each. In 2014-15
officers stopped fraudulent applications worth £385,000. The scheme allows
people to buy council houses for a discount which was increased in 2014 from
60% to 70%. Read more on the BBC website.
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