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Recommendation 17
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However, whether these detection activities are successful does not inform us about the impact on...
Conclusion
However, whether these detection activities are successful does not inform us about the impact on the underlying rate of fraud and error. The Department reported that due to the redeployment of its staff to tackle the surge of claims and the difficulties of performing its sampling exercise in lockdown, it will not be able to review cases to produce an estimate of fraud and error in 2020–21 in the usual way.36 The Department told us that its approach is to, as best it can, replicate the sampling that it would be doing in a normal year.37
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 25 March 2021. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗