Limit for Administrative Penalties Raised to £4,000

It used to be the rule that if a case of benefit fraud involved an amount of £2000 or less then the DWP would offer an Administrative Penalty instead of prosecuting a case through the criminal courts. The good news is that this figure has now been raised to £4000 and this is being applied retrospectively to all cases from 1.4.14.

This is very good news as it should take thousands of cases out of the criminal justice system and avoid many people being criminalised unnecessarily.