Claim: Only 552 people are employed by HMRC to investigate tax evasion, while 4,045 are employed by the DWP to investigate benefit fraud.
Fact-check: Viral figures on benefit fraud and tax evasion are wrong - Full Fact
Verdict: these figures don't appear to be correct. we've not been able to find a precise breakdown of how staff are allocated, but the dwp employs more than 9,000 in its counter-fraud department, while hmrc has around 28,000 staff in its customer compliance department.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Tony Thompson
Date published: 2023-03-31T00:00:00