Housing Benefit Recoveries and Fraud

Posted by Department for Work and Pensions on 26/10/2011 0 comments

This data contains statistics relating to Housing Benefit fraud volumes and amounts of incorrectly overpaid benefit. It is aggregate level data received on a quarterly basis from each Local Authority

Overview

Released	2011-08-24
Last updated	2011-08-24
Tags	dwp fraud housing-benefit-fraud-volumes housing-benefit-overpayments housing-benefit-recoveries-and-fraud local-authority-fraud-investigations overpayments transparency
Department	Department for Work and Pensions
Published by	Department for Work and Pensions
Published via	Department for Work and Pensions

Resources (download)

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Details

Name	housing_benefit_recoveries_and_fraud_data
Licence	UK Open Government Licence (OGL)
Geographic coverage	England Scotland Wales
Temporal granularity	quarter
Temporal coverage from	2008-04-01
Temporal coverage to	2011-03-31