What is benefit fraud?
- What is fraud?
- What is benefit fraud?
- What different interview techniques are there?
- What is cognitive interviewing?
- What is forensic accounting?
- What is internal auditing?
- What is the role of a fraud investigator?
- What makes a good investigator?
The term benefit fraud means supplying a council or governing body false information because you know, or anticipate, that you will gain benefits that you are not really entitled to. The most common types of benefit fraud include:
- Working while claiming benefit
- Living with a partner but claiming benefit as a single person
- Multiple-identity fraud
- Housing Benefit fraud
- Falsely claiming benefit
- Failing to report a source of income
According to the Department for Work and Pensions, benefit thieves stole an estimated £12.6 million from public funds in 2008.
To find out more about our fraud training please click here.
Company Background
Argent Associates was founded in 1983 by ex-Chief Inspector, Geoff Kay, who had a notable police career ending on the Directing Staff of the Police College, Bramshill. When Head of Leadership and Management Training at Barclays Bank he devised an anti-fraud interview training course, which was the originator to our 'Find the truth' or Investigation Interviewing Skills Course.
We continue to ensure that our team, and in particular our trainers, have many years experience of fraud and criminal investigative interviewing.
