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Mon 01 Jan 2010Department received 5,600 'tip-offs' about welfare fraud
THERE HAS been a five-fold increase in the number of reports being made by people who allege social welfare fraud by neighbours and acquaintances in the past year.
Some 5,600 tip-offs from members of the public were given to the Department of Social and Family Affairs’ central control section in the first 10 months of last year. This compares with 1,044 for the whole of 2008.
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