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Welfare changes and mistakes by Jobcentre Plus staff are causing delays in benefits and errors or sanctions, which push vulnerable people into precarious situations, the report from Church Action on Poverty and Oxfam warns.
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Mark Hoban, a work and pension minister, echoed Lord Freud's comments that there was no obvious link between benefits delays and errors and food bank use.
But Lib Dems plans are based on two optimistic claims: vast majority of welfare savings would be achieved by reducing benefit fraud and error and getting the jobless back to work; and raising £10bn from reducing tax avoidance.
But only if you are rich: one of the few spending increases was extra for the Department for Work and Pensions on benefit fraud and error chasing.
The NAO said: "The Department for Work and Pensions should have increased its focus on housing benefit fraud and error sooner".
The NAO said: "The Department for Work and Pensions should have increased its focus on housing benefit fraud and error sooner". In its report, it said the DWP had not established clearly enough how responsibilities for tackling fraud were divided between it and local authorities.
The web-based tracking and results system in Peru, also now shared with the Philippines and elsewhere, brings clear benefit in reducing delays and errors, and improving service efficiency, although it is not yet clear if such systems are cost-effective in the long term.
Electronic presentation of patient data may have benefits in efficiency and error rate reduction for these physician facing interfaces.
The Lord Bishop of Truro asked, evenly, whether ministers were prepared to concede that "there may be a link between benefit delays, errors and sanctions and the growing number of people using food banks".
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The DWP's figures give a preliminary estimate for 2011/12 of benefits overpayment through fraud and error at 2%, but wait: 0.8% is customer error, 0.5% is DWP error.
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