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Mon 08 Aug 2009Welfare fraud action saves €300,000
A crackdown on cross-Border welfare fraud saved the taxpayer more than €300,000 in its first six months, Minister for Social and Family Affairs Mary Hanafin said today.
Fraud staff from a range of Government agencies staged checkpoints along the Border questioning more than 900 people since March.
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