A TaxPayers' Alliance investigation has revealed that the Department for Work and Pensions predict that there will be a 5 per cent increase in fraud each year.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, which published these findings, our head of campaigns, Elliot Keck, said:
"Taxpayers will be reeling from the remarkable revelation that officials are now accepting increased fraud as a given.
"This should be a wake-up call to the political class and the public that the social fabric is fraying at an alarming rate, despite the cost to taxpayers and the country looking increasingly unsustainable.
"The new Labour Government should be putting this vital issue right on the top of its in-tray."
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