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Tenancy fraud
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1. Please tell me what types of housing tenancy frauds do you investigate?
Succession fraud, obtaining social housing by deception, unlawful subletting, Making a false statement
2. Please tell me how many full-time equivalent staff worked on counter housing fraud in each of the following three financial years?
a) 2021/22: 0
b) 2022/23: 0
c) 2023/24: 1 corporate investigator
Housing team have advised that each case investigation could have in the region of 4 officers involved at various points
3. Please tell me how much have you spent on counter housing fraud measures in each of the following three financial years, including staff and professional fees.
a) 2021/22: 0
b) 2022/23: 0
c) 2023/24: 0
4. Please tell me how many housing frauds cases have you investigated in each of the following three financial years:
a) 2021/22: 0
b) 2022/23: 0
c) 2023/24: 5 corporate investigations
Approximately 8 investigations into housing fraud over the past 3 financial years.
2 succession related.
3 not occupying as principle home.
1 subletting.
2 where the application has been brought into question
5. Please tell me how many of these investigated cases did you classified as ‘detected frauds’ in each of these three financial years?
a) 2021/22: 0
b) 2022/23: 0
c) 2023/24: 2
6. Please tell me how many of these detected frauds resulted in some form of action being taken?
2
7. Please tell me how many social homes have you recovered as a result of your counter fraud work in each of the following three financial years:
4 but one of those has finalised in this financial year. 2 matters are still under investigation from last financial year
8. What do you estimate to be the financial saving from your counter housing-fraud measures in each of the following three financial years
a) 2021/22: 0
b) 2022//23: 0
c) 2023/24: 0
9. Please tell me how many homes cases have you investigated of suspected illegal sub-letting using on-line websites, such as AirBnB, Booking.Com, or Vrbo.
0
