Coronavirus: The amount of money made by furlough fraudsters makes for depressing reading

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Sky's IanKingSky says the furlough scheme demanded speed but HMRC must now be given the funds to claw back billions in fraud

Nor does the NAO hold out much hope that much of this money is going to be clawed back on behalf of taxpayers.

He told Sky News:"HMRC set up this scheme from scratch within a four week period right at the peak of the pandemic with everyone working remotely. He added:"Everyone knew from the outset that that was a high level of risk that a tax and payment system like this would normally run." A hotline set up by HMRC for people to report fraudulent claims under the schemes has received more than 10,000 calls and Mr Davies said he was satisfied these calls were being followed up - although it is also worth noting that, during the early days of the furlough scheme, the telephone hotline was not available because home-working restrictions meant staff could not take calls in a secure environment.

While payments made in error or due to fraud under the furlough scheme are currently estimated at between £2-£3.9bn, they are currently put at just £130-£270m under the SEISS. That partly reflects the smaller scale of the SEISS - but also the fact that, unlike with the furlough scheme, applicants could not put in a claim via an agent but had to do so under their own name.

 

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IanKingSky If proper checks had been put in place there wud not av been any fraud. Just shows u how useless this government is. Remember the ferry company without any boats, Grenfell, Brexit lies, Windrush, MP's expenses n pay rises. The list is endless. Y r the public so gullable...

IanKingSky Well you could start with Google Starbucks Costa Facebook and all the other big corporate companies, then you can get Cummings to pay back the £50k Council tax bill for his second property and put that in to help out but you won't do that will you they are you biddies after all

IanKingSky and fraud will be there as you hand out money to help the needy the greedy will use every method to obtain it

IanKingSky Blame this incompetent Rishi

IanKingSky The government hates competition

IanKingSky And if he hadn’t have handed this out quickly he would have been hounded for not doing enough.

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