GBN Headliners July 3, 2024
Over £50 million in universal credit in the uks biggest ever case of benefit fraud, the gang worked for almost five years making thousands of false claims for universal credit, using either real or fake identities. The investigation identified three so called benefit factories, which were based in london, where repeated false claims were supported by forged documents, including fake tenancy agreements, counterfeit payslips and forged letters from landlords, employers and gps assaulting a shop worker will be made into a new criminal offence as the government responds to a surge in retail crime...