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Fraud investigation: Outline
The Council has a duty by law to administer a Council Tax and Housing Benefits service to those within its area who qualify. We also have a responsibility to ensure that payments are made only to those who are actually entitled to receive them.
For that reason, we have our own Fraud section whose duties include:
- detecting fraudulent claims;
- stopping and reducing payment in fraudulent cases; and
- calculating overpayments of benefit on the discovery of the true facts.