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    DWP urged to follow Australian example

    DWP urged to follow Australian example

    Audit watchdog calls for adoption of anti-benefit fraud tools

    Author Date published July 20, 2006 Categories

    The Department for Work and Pensions has been urged to adopt anti-benefit
    fraud tools used in Australia and France.

    The National Audit Office made this recommendation in its International
    Benchmark of Fraud and Error in Social Security Systems report.

    Australia use a central national database for customer records, which holds
    23 million customer records. The database has made it possible for the
    government to run a number of data-matching reviews covering records from
    various agencies involved in providing benefits.

    The NAO also mentioned the identifying number system used in France and the
    Netherlands to counter fraud, designed to support tracking between agency
    databases.

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