Article: Cheats who push up the benefits bill; Fraud File.(News)

Article: BENEFITS BILL TOTALS 870 MILLION POUNDS.. FOR ...
Evening News - Scotland;  January 21, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Wales at 87.03 per cent. Three Benefits Agency areas, East London and Anglia, Chilterns ... of experts will also be sent into benefits agency offices in an attempt to reduce errors ... one underestimates the scale of the Benefits Agency's task in tackling fraud and error ...

Article: Anger over 'something for nothing' benefits ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  February 11, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... initially cost pounds 80 million, as "oppressive harassment". The bill will force claimants to attend interviews with Benefits Agency staff or face losing their payments. Mr Blair said it would implement new Labour's values of "reward for hard work ...

Article: Baroness Hollis congratulates Benefits Agency ...
M2 Presswire;  March 2, 2000 ;     546 words ... ... GOVERNMENT: Baroness Hollis congratulates Benefits Agency nursery on its tenth anniversary ... staff and children at the Hertford Benefits Agency's workplace nursery today as they ... proved itself a real asset both to the Benefits Agency and to the local community. "Nurseries ...

Article: JobCentre and Benefits Agency strikers' plea; ...
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  December 13, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Byline: JOANNE ATKINSON BENEFITS Agency and JobCentre staff taking ... claim the open-plan joint Benefits Agency and JobCentre offices will ... staff." Staff at Bridgend Benefits Agency offices have been on strike ...

Article: Benefits Agency blunders cut income support to the ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  June 13, 2002 ;     670 words ... ... Byline: Paul Dale Blunders by the Benefits Agency have deprived more than 1,000 people ... claimants were not being paid by the Benefits Agency they had found a job and no longer ... Interpreting services provided by the Benefits Agency were dismissed as 'inadequate' by ...

Article: Ex-benefits agency boss takes jobs role
The Northern Echo;  February 20, 2002 ;     342 words ...FORMER benefits agency director, Val Curran, has been ... the former Employment Service and Benefits Agency, aimed, it says, at offering ... Curran was director of Tyne Tees Benefits Agency from 1999, and has played a key ...

Article: Benefits agency slammed over cheats' pounds 1.7bn ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  January 13, 2000 ;     479 words ... ... and called for improvements at the Benefits Agency. In a report on the administration ... benefits. Over the seven years since the Benefits Agency was set up, mistakes in income support ... It criticised the "inadequacy" of Benefits Agency computers, which were branded a major ...