Claim: The estimated cost of benefit fraud is £2.3 billion a year.
Fact-check: Figures on benefit and tax fraud investigators misrepresented - Full Fact
Verdict: this was the estimate for benefit fraud during the 2018/19 financial year, but the amount has increased in recent years.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Tony Thompson
Date published: 2022-06-14T00:00:00