1,000 social welfare fraud tip-offs a month
New figures from the department show that last year it received 12,648 anonymous tip-offs either by phone, letter or, in the majority of cases, email.
That is almost double the figure for 2009. Figures for the first two months of this year show a similar level of reportage of potentially bogus claims, with 2,131 contacts made to the department’s Central Control Section.
