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  2. Department for Work and Pensions: Resource Accounts 2009-10

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    The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified the 2009-10 accounts of the DWP, which have been qualified every year since 1988-89, because of the material level of fraud and error in expenditure on state benefits.

  4. Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs annual accounts 2017-18

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    Amyas Morse, the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) of the National Audit Office, has reported on the 2017-18 accounts of HM Revenue & Customs. His report focuses on tax revenue; Personal Tax Credits and Child Benefit error and fraud; and HMRC’s digital transformation programme.

  6. International benchmark of fraud and error in social security systems

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    The UK has levels of social security fraud and error which are similar to those in comparable countries, but the Department for Work and Pensions has a better understanding than other nations of the problems and is doing more to tackle them. A report by the National Audit Office, based on research carried out by […]

  9. Child Maintenance

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    This report looks at whether the government is achieving value for money in its management of child maintenance.

  10. Gift Aid and reliefs on donations

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    HMRC and the Treasury do not know if incentives designed to increase charitable giving, at a cost to the taxpayer of £940 million in 2012-13, have resulted in more income for charities.

  13. Whole of Government Accounts 2017-18

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    The Whole of Government Accounts consolidates the public sector’s accounts to produce a picture of the UK’s public finances.

  16. Tackling problem debt

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    This report aims to evaluate and conclude on HM Treasury’s overall approach to over-indebtedness.

  18. Means Testing

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    It will be difficult for government departments to achieve value for money from means-tested benefits unless government understands the impacts of means testing, learns from past experience and improves coordination between different benefits.

  19. Investigation into errors in Employment and Support Allowance

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    This investigation covers a single, major cause of underpayment error in ESA. This error relates to people whose existing benefit claim was converted to ESA and who were entitled to income-related ESA but were only awarded contribution-based ESA.