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Contact Us
Benefit Fraud
How to report Benefit Fraud:
- Using the
benefit fraud online form;
- Freephone: 0808 100 3484;
- Or write to us at PO Box No 31, Wellington Square, Ayr, KA7 2PL.
If you think benefit fraud is being committed in South Ayrshire tell us. All information
we receive is treated with total confidence. Please help us in our efforts to work
together to fight benefit fraud.
Outwith South Ayrshire
If you wish to report benefit fraud outwith South Ayrshire please visit the National fraud reporting website or Freephone
the National Benefit Fraud Hotline on 0800 328 6340.
What is Benefit Fraud?
People are committing benefit fraud where they are claiming Housing and or Council
Tax Benefit or Social Security benefits where they have no right to entitlement.
What types of fraud are committed?
Typical examples of benefit fraud are:
- People, who work, but don't declare this when they submit their claim.
- People, who claim as a single person, but actually live with a partner.
- People, who claim from an address, but do not live there.
- People who do not tell the Council the full amount of income, savings or capital
they have when they claim benefit.
- People who for any reason do not have any right to claim Housing Benefit or Council
Tax benefit.