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Recommendation 21

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The Department’s fraud and error strategy relies on modernising its technology and putting more investment...

Conclusion
The Department’s fraud and error strategy relies on modernising its technology and putting more investment into data and data analytics. It told us that “we really do see that putting more investment into data, into data analytics and into that prevention space, is going to get us where we need to go”, with prevention activity not allowing fraud and error into the system in the first place.42
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 ↗