Claim: £1.2 billion is lost to benefit fraud.
Fact-check: There's no easy way to compare benefit and tax fraud. - Full Fact
Verdict: this is out of date and newer estimates put this much higher at £2.3 billion for 2018/19.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Sinéad Boultwood
Date published: 2019-07-31T00:00:00