Using data analytics to tackle fraud and error could save government billions
Published on:Data analytics are a vital tool to tackle fraud and error, but savings so far have been modest compared to the amount potentially achievable.
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HM Revenue & Customs Accounts 2024-25: C&AG’s report
Published on:The report sets out the reasons and context for the C&AG’s qualified opinion on the regularity of HMRC’s 2024-25 Resource Accounts.
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Investigation into overpayments of Carer’s Allowance
Published on:This investigation examines the recent increase in identified errors in Carer’s Allowance and attempts to recover overpayments.
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HM Revenue and Customs Accounts 2023-24
Published on:Gareth Davies, the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) of the National Audit Office, has reported on HMRC’s 2023-24 accounts.
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Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs 2013-14 accounts
Published on:The report covers HMRC’s progress in operating the PAYE service, its implementation of its new Real Time Information service and its performance in tax collection and in reducing error and fraud in personal tax credits.
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Managing debt owed to central government
Published on:Government is owed a large amount of money but has no overall view of its debt reduction objectives nor of the financial risk that the debt poses.
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Department for Work and Pensions 2014-15 accounts
Published on:The Comptroller and Auditor General, Amyas Morse, has qualified his audit opinion on the regularity of the 2014-15 accounts of the DWP, owing to the unacceptably high level of fraud and error in benefit expenditure.
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Tackling tax credits error and fraud
Published on:HMRC has improved its approach to tackling error and fraud in tax credits but still lost £2.3 billion in 2010-11.
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Energy bills support schemes ‘undoubtedly successful at protecting majority of consumers’
Published on:Energy bills support successfully protected many people and businesses during 2022 and 2023 from rising energy prices.
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The packaging recycling obligations
Published on:This report identifies lessons from the management and performance of the packaging recycling obligation system.
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HM Revenue & Customs 2022-23 Accounts
Published on:Gareth Davies, the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) of the NAO, has reported on the 2022-23 accounts of HMRC.
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Investigation into penalty charge notices in healthcare
Published on:This investigation sets out facts about penalty charge notices and how the NHS supports vulnerable people to navigate the system.
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Department for Work and Pensions 2013-14 accounts
Published on:The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his audit opinion owing to the material level of fraud and error in benefit expenditure.
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Northern Ireland National Insurance Fund Account
Published on:The NAO welcomes the progress being made by the Northern Ireland Social Security Agency in reducing levels of fraud and error in benefit payments.
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Rolling out Universal Credit
Published on:In this report, we assess the value for money of the Department for Work and Pensions’ introduction of Universal Credit.
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Preventing fraud in contracted employment programmes
Published on:Reported fraud in Employment Programmes is low despite past flaws such as in the New Deal. New improvement controls are better, yet risks remain.
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HM Revenue & Customs 2021-22 Accounts
Published on:Gareth Davies, the C&AG of the National Audit Office, has reported on the 2021-22 accounts of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
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Tackling fraud and corruption against government
Published on:Most public bodies do not know how much fraud they face and cannot demonstrate that they have the correct level of counter fraud resources, according to the National Audit Office.
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Increasingly complex tax system burdens government and business with billions in admin costs
Published on:An increasingly complex tax system is burdening government and business with billions in admin costs and rising.
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Delivery of employment support schemes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Published on:This report examines government’s implementation of COVID-19 employment support schemes.