A new drive to reduce the amount of money lost to customer and official error in the benefit system is expected to save £1billion by 2012.

The pioneering strategy, ‘Getting welfare right: Tackling error in the benefit system’ and associated ‘Something to declare’ campaign were launched on 24 January by DWP Minister James Plaskitt.

At the launch in Peterborough, James Plaskitt said: “Our strategy for reducing error is based on prevention, compliance and correction: preventing new error, ensuring customers and staff comply with benefit rules, and identifying and correcting existing errors.”

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