{"id":3205,"date":"2011-11-10T12:45:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T11:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?p=3205"},"modified":"2011-11-10T12:45:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T11:45:28","slug":"councils-detect-185m-of-fraud-but-audit-commission-reckons-tip-of-the-iceberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?p=3205","title":{"rendered":"Councils detect \u00c2\u00a3185m of fraud, but Audit Commission reckons &#8216;Tip of the Iceberg&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The organisation has just published its report \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcProtecting the Public  Purse\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c billed as the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only annual survey of detected fraud  against councils \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and it shows that 121,000 scams were detected in  2010\/11. The scams include false benefit claims, council tax discount  cheating, unlawful use of council housing, cheating on council  contracts, and also emerging trends such as criminals exploiting  council\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s transparency information to mislead councils.<\/p>\n<p>However, councils have done better at detecting these scams over the  last year, uncovering \u00c2\u00a3185 million worth of scams, an improvement of 37  per cent from the previous year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s figure of \u00c2\u00a3135 million. Even so,  the Audit Commission estimates that councils could be losing up to \u00c2\u00a32  billion a year to fraudsters.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on the Housing excellence website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.housingexcellence.co.uk\/news\/council-detection-improves-fraudsters-are-still-raking-it-937445\">http:\/\/www.housingexcellence.co.uk\/news\/council-detection-improves-fraudsters-are-still-raking-it-937445<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The organisation has just published its report \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcProtecting the Public Purse\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c billed as the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only annual survey of detected fraud against councils \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and it shows that 121,000 scams were detected in 2010\/11. The scams include false benefit claims, council tax discount cheating, unlawful use of council housing, cheating on council contracts, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?p=3205\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Councils detect \u00c2\u00a3185m of fraud, but Audit Commission reckons &#8216;Tip of the Iceberg&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-news-section"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Councils detect \u00c2\u00a3185m of fraud, but Audit Commission reckons &#039;Tip of the Iceberg&#039;  - Property Surveying NEWSLETTER<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?p=3205\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Councils detect \u00c2\u00a3185m of fraud, but Audit Commission reckons &#039;Tip of the Iceberg&#039;  - Property Surveying NEWSLETTER\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The organisation has just published its report \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcProtecting the Public Purse\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c billed as the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only annual survey of detected fraud against councils \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and it shows that 121,000 scams were detected in 2010\/11. 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