Benefit cheats have been warned that they will face ‘robust’ investigation after it was revealed that nearly £2.1 million of welfare was wrongly claimed in the last five years. The Social Security department paid out a seven-figure sum in incorrectly and fraudulently claimed benefits between 2009 and 2013. But the department’s fraud team say that […]

ITV News can reveal a five-fold increase in fraudulent benefit claims in Jersey in the past five years. New figures show more than two million pounds in pay-outs has been wrongly claimed by islanders since 2009. But the true scale could be much greater, with investigators admitting it is almost impossible to uncover ever case […]