Chapter 54: Fraud and penalties
This chapter covers:
1. Civil penalties (
here)
2. Investigating benefit claims (
here)3. Prosecution of offences (
here)4. Administrative penalties for benefit offences (
here)5. Sanctions for benefit offences (
here)This chapter covers the rules on fraud for benefits administered by the DWP, housing benefit, child benefit and guardian’s allowance. For tax credits and fraud, see
Chapter 66. For the rules on the Scottish social security benefits and fraud, see
Chapter 78. This chapter does not cover the rules for statutory sick, maternity, adoption, paternity, shared parental and parental bereavement pay.