Subject	Predicate	Object
sjTxOl1R	a	Resource
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	answer has question	TsUC8oIy
	answer has answering person	Thomas Christopher John Pursglove
	answer text	<p>As of the end of April 2023, DWP has 1,111 full time equivalent (FTE) employees involved in investigating benefit fraud. This number does not include our compliance staff, who carry out robust and challenging interviews to ensure benefit claimants receive their correct entitlement.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>For the financial year 2022/23, DWP estimated that the monetary value of benefit overpayments due to fraud stood at £6.4bn.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-2022-to-2023-estimates/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-ending-fye-2023" target="_blank">Fraud and error in the benefit system Financial Year Ending (FYE) 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p>
	answer given date	2023-05-11
	answer has answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	written answer has answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions	answering body has written answer	sjTxOl1R
Department for Work and Pensions	answering body has answer	sjTxOl1R
TsUC8oIy	question has answer	sjTxOl1R
Thomas Christopher John Pursglove	answering person has answer	sjTxOl1R