Claim: Claiming to be living alone is one of the most common types of benefit fraud.
Fact-check: Falsely claiming to live alone accounts for around 9% of benefit fraud - Full Fact
Verdict: it was probably the fourth most common type of benefit fraud in 2016/17 where the specific reason was known, accounting for an estimated 9% of overpayments relating to fraud.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Hannah Phaup
Date published: 2018-02-14T00:00:00