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10-27-2010, 07:27 AM
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Next year&#39;s "valuable" fraud survey would be the last, it said. Other scams reported were student council-tax discounts claimed using fake colleges and ...
Councils uncover £135m of fraud (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFEwrmvhItxk-uDJ5X9xgZNV5vHDQ&url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-11633074)BBC News
Councils detect housing fraud of £100m (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNEtAKE6BHuUaggKrZs3wdm8-FbCbw&url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/dcb0e802-e12e-11df-90b7-00144feabdc0.html)Financial Times
AUDIT REPORT HIGHLIGHTS FRAUD MENACE FACING COUNCILS (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGAV8-qjgzCS4KJnMqCVa-_ylKOww&url=http://www.publicnet.co.uk/news/2010/10/27/audit-report-highlights-fraud-menace-facing-councils/)PublicNet
Express.co.uk (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGfUwuJ-KejH9kvdm5twrcSrTSGiw&url=http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/207791/-135m-a-year-housing-fraud-is-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-) -FT.com (blog) (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNE63H6b0Y3q0N_Vafc26YWM-U0nrw&url=http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/10/councils-spotted-135m-of-fraud-in-119000-cases-last-year/) -Telegraph.co.uk (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNEM5DPRYju5PvL8H0aMpebK_6IgqA&url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8088000/Up-to-50000-council-houses-illegally-occupied-report-reveals.html)
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