This chapter covers rules on fraud for benefits administered by the DWP, housing benefit, child benefit and guardian’s allowance. Income support (IS), income-based jobseekers’ allowance (JSA) and tax credits have now mostly been replaced by universal credit (see here). For information about IS or income-based JSA and fraud, and about tax credits and fraud, see the 2024/25 edition of this Handbook. For the rules on the Scottish benefits and fraud, see Chapter 68. This chapter does not cover the rules for statutory sick, maternity, adoption, paternity, shared parental, parental bereavement and neonatal care pay.