Benefit fraudsters will have cash seized from bank accounts under new crackdown

New planned powers volition mean that wealth tin beryllium reclaimed from radical who person committed fraud and are not connected benefits oregon PAYE

Benefit fraudsters look having wealth seized from their slope accounts nether a caller crackdown announced today.

New planned powers volition mean that wealth tin beryllium reclaimed from radical who person committed fraud and are not connected benefits oregon PAYE.

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has said that authorities volition "make sure" that radical who "seek to cheat" the strategy are held accountable.

The powers volition beryllium utilized arsenic a past resort, the Government says, and volition let the quality to retrieve indebtedness from radical who person the means but person refused to wage wealth back.

The Department for Work and Pensions has said that determination volition beryllium safeguarding and oversight measures introduced and unit volition person grooming connected the usage of immoderate caller powers.

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Liz Kendall, said: "This Government volition not tolerate fraud and discarded successful the payment strategy arsenic we marque it acceptable for the 21st period arsenic portion of our program for change.

"The nationalist expects this of us, and we are delivering for them.

"People who question to cheat the strategy should know, our caller powers volition assistance america to drawback you retired and marque definite you are held accountable.

"We volition besides present caller powers to minimise overpayments to payment claimants truthful that hardworking families up and down the state cognize their wealth is being protected."

The Conservatives person claimed the announcement is the Government trying to "distract" from antagonistic headlines.

Helen Whately MP, shadiness enactment and pensions secretary, said: "The Chancellor is intelligibly hopeless to find immoderate savings up of what whitethorn successful information beryllium a mini-budget due to the fact that she needs to repair the harm she has inflicted with her disastrous fund past year."