How to report a fraud
If you have information that assists the council in its work to minimise benefit fraud please report it. Any information we receive is kept in the strictest of confidence. Benefit fraud is costing the country billions of pounds each year.
- You can email the Benefit Enquiry Unit fraud@west-lindsey.gov.uk
- You can telephone 01427 676522
It is important we have as much information as you can give us.
We usually need to know the following information if we are going to investigate fraud:
- Name, address and description of the person you are reporting.
- Type of fraud you think they are committing and how long it has been going on.
- Where they work
- What times of the day they work.
- If they have a car or not.
- What type of car, colour and registration number.
- The name and description of person living with them i.e. any distinctive features - glasses, moustache etc.
- Any other information which you think may help
We investigate every allegation of benefit fraud. If we do not have enough information to carry out an investigation no further action is taken.
We have to do all investigations thoroughly, and so it may take sometime to complete an investigation. The law states that we must keep all information on our customers confidential, so it is not possible to give progress reports on an investigation.
