Benefit Fraud Powers Criticised
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•DWP to take money directly from bank accounts in benefit fraud crackdown
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Legislation will grant benefit fraud investigators the power to recover debts from people who have previously overclaimed on their benefits.
Currently, the only way to recover this debt is to take them to court which officials say is a long and costly process.
Privacy campaigners warn the new powers would be a “blank cheque’ to force companies to “snoop” on “the country’s poorest citizens” Big Brother Watch director Silkie Carlo said: “This blank cheque to force private companies to snoop is intrusive and excessive”.
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