Chris Corker Corporate Fraud Members Training June 2017 www. crawley. gov. uk
Government Welfare Reform • Universal Credit • Late 2011 DWP announce an options paper on SFIS • WAKE UP CALL – Things are changing • How best to use our trained skilled investigators • HB fraud work moves to DWP August 2015 www. crawley. gov. uk HB, IS, JSA, INCAP, Tax Credits
Fraud in the Council • Fraud does not want to be detected • Difficult to give a real loss figures • Protecting the public purse / FFL publications • Moral and legal obligation to protect our limited funds www. crawley. gov. uk
Areas of risk Any area where goods and services are applied for: • • Housing Fraud Council Tax Support Scheme Housing Benefit (Referred to DWP) Business Rates Employee Procurement Anywhere • • Give false information to obtain goods/services Fail to update the council when circumstances change www. crawley. gov. uk
Housing Fraud • • • Illegal subletting Non occupation False applications to be housed False Right to Buy applications Key selling Rent deposit scheme Succession and assignments Audit commission research estimate outside of London 2% of all Social housing stock is misused • Estimated cost to the council is £ 18, 000 per property. • Crawley Homes have over 8000 properties. 2% = 160 homes • Our priority is to house those in need not fraudsters www. crawley. gov. uk
Council Tax • Discounts and exemptions • Over 24, 000 accounts had a discount at some stage during 13/14 • Over £ 4. 5 m was awarded in discounts • Single person discounts / student discounts • Exercise last year resulted in £ 65, 000 saving by just matching against electoral roll information. (This year we estimate £ 75, 000 - £ 100, 000 in savings) www. crawley. gov. uk
Business Rates • Collect £ 120, 000 • Approximately 3100 property's • Approximately 2800 accounts • Sham companies set up to take the fall • Small businesses rate relief • Charities www. crawley. gov. uk
Council Tax Support • 8, 300 receiving CT support. £ 7. 7 m paid out • If we go over our CT support budget then this is a direct loss to CBC • Failure to declare Income • Failure to declare capital • Failure to declare partner • Failure to declare changes in circumstances • 2% fraud would mean 166 applicaions would be false losing £ 154, 000 www. crawley. gov. uk
Employee • • False applications No deterrent will cause larger loss Over £ 21 m paid out in salaries and associated costs Criminals look for easy targets and use information to select what organisations to target. • If you knew Crawley BC had a fraud deterrent system in place and another authority didn’t where would you apply ? • Crawley is the leading authority in Corporate fraud in West Sussex. (Audit Commission data) www. crawley. gov. uk
Headline Figures • DWP figures show a 4% loss in fraud and error. A 2% loss would mean. • • • Housing Fraud – 160 properties CT discounts – 480 wrong accounts £ 178, 000 Housing Benefit - £ 966, 000 CT Support - £ 154, 000 Employee - £ 420, 000 www. crawley. gov. uk
Legal Powers • Successive governments have given us powers to investigate fraud. • Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Act • Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Fraud & Enforcement) www. crawley. gov. uk
Profile • Team profile significantly increased • Cross department work • New sources of information and intel. So much data held in authority • Training • Local press coverage of cases www. crawley. gov. uk Crawley Homes Democratic Services IT Community Services Legal Fraud Team Finance / Payroll Communications ASB Revs & Bens
Moving Forward • Continue forging links within the Council • Fraud awareness • Preventing loss is much cheaper than trying to recover it. • Don’t look you won’t find • Finding fraud is positive action and should not be seen as a negative • Support our frontline services www. crawley. gov. uk
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