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In the Audit Commission report Protecting the public purse: fighting fraud against local government and local taxpayers, the soon to be abolished body describes what has happened in the field of fraud detection and prevention since 2009 and set out the findings from its recent fraud survey.
Last year England’s councils detected around £99 m of benefit fraud, over £15 m of council tax fraud, and £21 m of other types of fraud including false insurance claims, and abuse of the disabled parking ‘blue badge’ scheme. In addition nearly 1,600 homes have been recovered by councils with a replacement cost of about £240 million.<br><br>To download the whole report visit –
