Sentence examples for fraud accounts from inspiring English sources

Despite the impression many papers give the public, fraud accounts for only 0.5% of the current expenditure.

"We have taken immediate actions and banned these reported individual fraud accounts while continuing to investigate and crack down on any fraudulent behavior to protect rider and driver interests," an Uber spokesperson told Quartz.

However the Lords voted yesterday, after the time of writing, and whatever amendments ensue, the Government's intent is as plain from its semantics as from its express aim to reduce the cost of assisting the most seriously disabled by 20 per cent (an astounding figure when fraud accounts for 0.5 per cent of this budget).

"We always paid our bills on time and never defaulted on any obligation," the retired Air Force officer, 72, told Congress, but retirement plans were dashed "when we discovered that our Social Security numbers and names had been used to open 33 fraud accounts with a total value of $113,000.

Norman writes: However the Lords voted yesterday, after the time of writing, and whatever amendments ensue, the Government's intent is as plain from its semantics as from its express aim to reduce the cost of assisting the most seriously disabled by 20percentnt (an astounding figure when fraud accounts for 0.5percentnt of this budget).

But in three years of regularly asking people what they think about the welfare state, I have never heard a single voice echoing the bien-pensant – and factually accurate – view that benefit fraud accounts for a tiny share of social security spending.

C1 Corporate Fraud Crackdown The House and Senate easily passed a bill overhauling corporate fraud, accounting and securities laws.

Ms. Brown said she suspected that fraud accounted for "a small proportion" of the improper payments.

The report found that higher prices, administrative expenses, and fraud accounted for almost half of this waste.

For many people in banking, it would seem, securities fraud, accounting fraud, perjury and conspiracy are just another day at the office.

According to figures out this week, fraud accounted for just 70p out of every £100 spent on benefits last year.