DWP 'Fails To Stop Billions Being Lost Through Housing Benefit'

A group of MPs has launched a scathing attack on the DWP branding its spend on preventing housing benefit fraud and error ‘completely nonsensical’. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) ordered the department to report back within six months ‘with a clear plan to tackle the major sources of loss on housing benefit’. Margaret Hodge, chair of the PAC, said: ‘Billions of pounds have been lost to the taxpayer as a result of the DWP’s failure to tackle housing benefit fraud and error effectively.” Download the report from the Parliament website.