New U.K. Welfare System at Risk of Fraud, Lawmakers Say
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The computer system designed to administer the U.K. government’s new approach to making welfare payments simpler may be vulnerable to fraud, a panel of lawmakers said.
Parliament’s cross-party Communities Committee said the ministry in charge of benefits payments, the Department for Work and Pensions, must “provide swift assurance” that the switch to so-called universal credit will be carried out with adequate information-technology security in place.