Have a missed a report on disability benefits fraud?

[KatyMac]

I saw this but can't find anything else?

https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/dwp-disability-benefit-fraud-pip/

Is it real?

I have not seen anything about this.

Yes you have missed a report. Here it is : www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-2023-to-2024-estimates/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-ending-fye-2024

This is the part the article mentions:

The Personal Independence Payment overpayment rate was at the lowest recorded level of 0.4% (£90m) in FYE 2024, compared with 1.1% (£200m) in FYE 2023, which was a statistically significant decrease

The decrease in the total overpayment rate was driven by a statistically significant decrease in Claimant Error overpayment rate to 0.3% in FYE 2024 from 0.8% in FYE 2023.
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The majority of overpayments in FYE 2024 happened because the claimants failed to report an improvement in their needs (Functional Needs). This accounted for £6 in every £10 overpaid. Functional Needs decreased to 0.3% in FYE 2024, compared with 0.9% in FYE 2023. This was a statistically significant decrease and the lowest rate since FYE 2018. Functional Needs were the main reason for all Claimant Error overpayments reported in FYE 2024.
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The rate of cases excluded from the headline overpayment estimates due to a categorisation of Not Reasonably Expected to Know (Not RETK) was 2.0% in FYE 2024, compared to 1.4% in FYE 2023. This is where the claimant was incorrectly overpaid, but we would not reasonably expect them to know to report the change. Not RETK cases are all Claimant Error cases with error reason Functional Needs. Further information can be found in the background information document.
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The proportion of Personal Independence Payment claims overpaid in FYE 2024 was 1 in 100 claims, remaining the same as in FYE 2023. These proportions do not include the Not RETK cases.

All useful figures for batting away the PIP bashers and their made up stories!

But, but, aren't most disabled people on the make, fraudulently claiming money!

Oh, no doubt LadyKenya!

I am sure a few posters will be along to tell us that soon.

I'm not sure. The article didn't seem well written at all. TBF I couldn't be bothered analysing the data in the report but for PIP it said "Overpayments due to Fraud were 0.2% (£40m) in FYE 2023, compared with 0.3% (£30m) in FYE 2020."
"Overpayments due to Claimant Error were 0.8% (£140m) in FYE 2023, compared with 1.1% (£140m) in FYE 2020."
Which are not huge numbers at all but aren't zero either.

Overall "The total rate of benefit expenditure overpaid in FYE 2023 was 3.6% (£8.3bn), compared with 4.0% (£8.7bn) in FYE 2022 which was the highest recorded level of overpayments." And
"The total rate of benefit expenditure underpaid in FYE 2023 was 1.4% (£3.3bn), the highest recorded level, compared with 1.2% (£2.6bn) in FYE 2022."

Yes, the usual suspects!@IClaudine

Are you looking at the most recent report? The one linked to in the article is for FYE 2023, which may be an error.

The findings for FYE 2024 that I linked to) show a nil rate of fraud for PIP (Appendix one).

It just proves yet again that the government is targeting disabled people for no logical reasons and purely to make headlines in the right wing press and desperately try to get a few votes from a few gullible and unpleasant individuals...

It really is shameful.

I think the problem is that this government have framed things in terms not so much of fraud, but that some conditions don’t warrant a PIP claim. It’s the overall cost that’s the concern. PIP was designed to save money rather than to adequately support disabled people. The assessment criteria have been rightly criticised because they don’t adequately assess the cost of conditions connected with a wide range of disability - incontinence being one.

The Tories proudly announced in 2013 that PIP would include people with mental health conditions for the first time (DLA didn’t) but here we are just over ten years later and they’re now implying that those with mental health conditions shouldn’t be claiming - as evidenced by the speech in which Sunak blatantly stated that we’re medicating every day problems. Either he or his speech writers got that wrong judging by the backlash.

Austerity was largely unnecessary - it was driven by ideology, as are the proposed cuts to sickness and disability benefits. The problem is, that it’s being sold to the public as fraud, and as far as I can see the sheeple are happy to fall for it once again.