Universal Credit Fraud
Recent publicity focuses on the fact that more than one million people are claiming Universal Credit, without the need to search for a job.
The true situation is much worse. Those people claiming benefit who are supposed to search for a job are not checked.
In my long experience of benefit fraud work, helping claimants in trouble, I cannot think of one occasion when any claimant was criticised for not seeking work.
They simply do not bother and often get cash jobs for delivery drivers, mini cabbing or drug dealing.
The news looks bad but in fact it is much worse.
November 2025
Rodney Hylton-Potts