Phil Corrigan
Reporter at The Sentinel (Stoke)
Local Democracy Reporter at Stoke-on-Trent Live [email protected]
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hellorayo.co.uk | Phil Corrigan
There were 40 cases of residents fraudulently claiming the single person discount on their council taxAuthor: Phil Corrigan, Local Democracy Reporting ServicePublished 4 hours agoCouncil officers uncovered £2.7 million of fraud last year, a new report shows. Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s corporate fraud team flagged a total of 108 cases in 2024/25, including housing tenancy, right to buy and council tax fraud.
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bbc.com | Phil Corrigan
Fraud totalling £2.7m uncovered by councilPhil CorriganLocal Democracy Reporter, StaffordshireLDRSOfficers at Stoke-on-Trent City Council found 108 cases of fraudFraud totalling about £2.7m has been uncovered by a council, with transgressions in tax, housing tenancy and right-to-buy among the offending. Officers at Stoke-on-Trent City Council found there were 108 cases of fraud committed against the authority in 2024/25, which was down on the 142 reported the previous year.
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aol.com | Phil Corrigan
Fraud totalling about £2.7m has been uncovered by a council, with transgressions in tax, housing tenancy and right-to-buy among the offending. Officers at Stoke-on-Trent City Council found there were 108 cases of fraud committed against the authority in 2024/25, which was down on the 142 reported the previous year.
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stokesentinel.co.uk | Philip Corrigan |Phil Corrigan
But community leaders were told that 'significant challenges' would remain for the cash-strapped city councilA major funding review could leave Stoke-on-Trent with 'a bigger slice of the cake', councillors have been told. But officers at Stoke-on-Trent City Council say it is too early to know whether the government's 'fair funding review' would ease the authority's financial difficulties.
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stokesentinel.co.uk | Philip Corrigan |Phil Corrigan
Cases ranged from housing tenancy to council tax fraudCouncil officers uncovered £2.7 million of fraud last year, a new report shows. Stoke-on-Trent City Council's corporate fraud team investigated a total of 108 cases in 2024/25, including housing tenancy, Right to Buy and council tax fraud. The figures reported to the council's audit committee were down on those from 2023/24, when there were 142 cases totalling £3.6 million.
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