DWP Risk Assurance Division receives 60 New Deal Fraud allegations
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A Freedom of Information request reveals that DWP’s Risk Assurance Division (RAD) received 60 referrals of allegations of fraud or abuse of New Deal programmes by New Deal providers for the period since April 2006 until end of December 2009.
2006/07:
13 Referrals
11 Accepted
2 Rejected
2007/08:
16 Referrals
15 Accepted
1 Rejected
2008/09:
23 Referrals
9 Accepted
14 Rejected
2009/10 (until end of 09):
8 Referrals
5 Accepted
3 Rejected
TOTAL:
60 Referrals
40 Accepted
20 Rejected
Criticism
Figures look very false. Seem made up.
Percentage of rejections
2006/07: 15.4%
2007/08: 6.3%
2008/09: 60.9%
2009/10*: 37.5%
* until end of year
Fraud investigations
I assume the 40 accepted allegations were investigated.
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this underlines a major problem that these organisations’ face,while the fraud focus in the past tended to focus on those claiming benefits with front line tv advertisements and poster campaigns in job centers in the past stating “like my new phone/cd player you paid for it” which was clearly a poor thought out campaign which had no real weight,the government seeked to show those on benefits with suspicion.
with the recent highlighting of companies and fraud, these organisations contracted by the dwp the issue has become somewhat more muted,this is surprising as the amounts can be substantial and the resulting effects on the taxpayer and those forwarded under the guise of providing a new beginning such as vulnerable people ,i have always been very wary of companies who go to great lengths to “cover up” issues before they surface in the public domain,this has proven to be a bad mistake and underlines an outstanding suspicion that all is not well.
people are not stupid of these facts and those placed into these conditions are soon aware if not before of the running of these companies and the problems arisen by fraud,one might soon start to soon conclude that fifty people into a confined space with little or no up to date job access,a poorly run environment given the amount spent by the public and the end result in terms of outcomes all is not well,the government that refuses to except any problems exist publically,with the threat of sanctions on those people who dare to criticize is totally unacceptable.and trying to mute media highlighting of bad practice is equally as bad.
placing vulnerable and disabled people into this environment continues to highlight bad planning,unrealistic expectations’,poor thought in regard to public money being ploughed in indicates a policy of government being advised of want they want to hear by these companies rather then the reality faced on the ground of a prospect of employment has become a lottery given those unemployed.
a large amount of all this has been propergated in all aspects of policies going back thirty years.the governments past and present are entirely to blame,to state the uk will lead the world out of recession is a complete indication of policy and how ridiculous this has become and sounds.
the message you messed up the economy you lie in it and to blame unemployed people on benefits and those on low incomes’ is a complete sham,this is not from the “enemy within” but someone who cares about the county the people living in it the lives that have been effected also. and the long term outlook.
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