She points to the proliferation of stories about fraudulent claimants.
The agency is now planning a scheme to test the use of data mining to identify fraudulent claimants.
Pips are a benefit introduced to replace the disability living allowance (DLA), which ministers said was being abused by fraudulent claimants.
If not, he is deceiving the voters.If the Tories are right, and there are lots of fraudulent claimants to be scared off unemployment rolls by workfare, Mr Blair might get lucky.
Nevertheless, in February the government enthusiastically expanded the number of workfare pilots and, in the unlikely event that the Tories are re-elected, they would probably extend their version of workfare to the entire country.Labour is sceptical of claims that there are lots of fraudulent claimants.
The new measures would also include a strict new medical assessment starting in 2013 for many of the three million people on disability allowances, with the government aiming to save more than 10 percent of the $12 billion it currently spends annually on the program by expunging fraudulent claimants.
Opposition MSPs said there also remained unanswered questions about how the Scottish benefits system will be run, the level of its reliance on the DWP's complex payments and computer systems and on how fraudulent claimants would be found and sanctioned.
The original case investigated fraudulent claimants of US federal disability benefits, whose Facebook accounts apparently showed that they were in fact healthy.
Photographs, private messages and other information were supplied by the social media site to the court in 2013, as part of an investigation into fraudulent claimants for US federal disability benefits.
These provisions, however, reflect Congress's cherished conviction that the programs are beleaguered by fraudulent claimants rather than reality.
Perhaps so as not to appear fraudulent, claimants felt the need to stress their desire to work, but emphasised how the severity and physical limitations of the condition prevented them from doing so.
