UK FRAUD PANEL WARNS OF SPIRALLING UNDETECTED ILLEGAL SUB-LETTING OF ENGLAND SOCIAL HOUSING
April 23rd, 2023
The UK’s Fraud Advisory Panel (FAP) has warned that British government failures to monitor and fight public housing tenancy fraud means 76% of such scams go undetected in England, costing more than GBP500 million (USD619 million) in unnecessary social housing spending during 2019-20. These homes are rented fraudulently by well-to-do criminals based on bogus claims of poverty – with the properties sub-let for profit in breach of government rules. With an estimated 148,000 properties being illegally sub-let by fraudsters by 2020, claimed the panel, the cost to ...
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