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"By next year we want to save £20bn for the year including by reducing losses from fraud, error and debt".
On top of this we are clamping down on the loss of revenue through fraud, error and debt; and our tough new approach also extends to big projects.
But its latest report, published on Monday 6 February, makes the bolder claim that applying behaviour insights could reduce fraud, error and debt by billions.
In 2012, it projected savings of £2.2bn a year from reduced fraud, error and overpayments, but this month cut the figure to £600m.
The government hopes that this will make services more efficient, better for users, and will help it identify further opportunities to reduce the amount of taxpayers' money lost through fraud, error and debt.
She added: "The government has gone on record recently [as part of its Fraud, Error and Debt initiative – pdf] as reporting that overdue debts cost it between £7bn and £8bn – 95% of which resides with the Department of Work and Pensions and HMRC – and part of this has now been passed to our members for collection".
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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.
In refreshing its approach to reducing fraud and error, the department needs to continue to improve its understanding of the root causes of fraud and error".
This has led to an increased risk of fraud and error," she said.
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