DWP 'making mockery' of welfare crackdown after staff STOLE £600,000 from vulnerable benefits claimants

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DWP 'making mockery' of welfare crackdown after staff STOLE £600,000 from vulnerable benefits claimants

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been accused of “making a mockery” of the welfare crackdown after staff stole £600,000 from vulnerable benefits claimants. More than £600,000 was lost to benefits-related fraud carried out by DWP employees and contract staff through 2025-26. The figure is down from £1.7million losses to fraud in the previous year, but the new total brings the amount stolen by DWP work…