NI benefit fraud costing £120.9m
Benefit fraud and error in Northern Ireland is costing £120.9m (€181m), it was claimed today.
A report by the North's Comptroller and Auditor General on the accounts of departments and other public bodies said estimated levels of fraud and mistakes in income support, jobseekers’ allowance and housing benefit during 2002-3 were “unacceptably high”.
The report also took Invest Northern Ireland to task for failing to ensure the grants it gave to third party organisations were used properly.
