4 h. ago Holiday mistakes could mean people are committing benefit fraud

Your benefits could be stopped or reduced as you’re forced to pay back sums

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20 h. ago Common holiday mistake could be 'open invite' to lose thousands

People are being warned to avoid doing this if they're leaving home for a while

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22 h. ago Don't make £3,800 mistake during your holiday abroad this summer

Brits have been warned not to give an open invitation to criminals with the common holiday habit

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23 h. ago Tourist issues warning after holiday mistake left her looking like 'dog stung by wasp'

Brandy Lovering, 24, was on a week-long trip in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico with her boyfriend Kyle, when she developed sun poisoning so severe she could barely open her eyes

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68 h. ago DWP to review State Pension, PIP and other benefit claims for fraud or errors this year

The DWP confirmed £9.5 billion was overpaid to claimants over the last year

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3 d. ago Innocent hand luggage mistake could ruin your entire holiday

A travel expert claims stashing your passport in your cabin bags could bring your getaway to a premature end

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3 d. ago Brit, 74, who retired in Spain with years of savings now a cleaner after simple mistake

Alan Brozel, 74, took early retirement at 50 and moved to Spain with his wife Paulene but is now working as a holiday villa cleaner after making a heartbreaking mistake

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3 d. ago DWP confirms start date for 'monitoring' bank accounts to tackle benefit fraud

The legislation will allow banks to "monitor" accounts - but the DWP will not be able to see how people on benefits spend their money

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4 d. ago Countdown begins on DWP’s new fraud powers to monitor bank accounts

The new powers are part of a plan to crackdown on benefit fraud which is costing the system around £9.5billion

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5 d. ago Three common packing mistakes that leave people stressed when going on holiday

A travel expert has revealed the top three most common packing mistakes that people should avoid when going on a holiday

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7 d. ago Minnesota's election safeguards stopped a voter fraud scheme in its tracks, secretary of state says

Two people have been charged with conspiracy to commit voter registration fraud in Minnesota

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7 d. ago DWP confirms start date for Eligibility Verification and ‘monitoring’ bank accounts to tackle benefit fraud

The Eligibility Verification Measure will not give DWP direct access to bank accounts or enable investigators to see how people on benefits spend their money.

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1 week ago Full list of DWP benefits that could be stopped if you make this holiday mistake

Your benefits may be stopped and you would have to pay back any overpaid amounts if you don't report a change in circumstances, including a summer holiday

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2 w. ago Kilmar Ábrego García returned from El Salvador to face criminal charges in US

Man mistakenly deported to El Salvador indicted on counts of illegally smuggling undocumented people, says BondiUS politics – live updatesKilmar Ábrego García, the man whom the Donald Trump administration mistakenly deported from Maryland to El Salvador in March, returned to the US on Friday to face criminal charges.In a press briefing on Friday, the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, said that a federal grand jury in Tennessee had indicted the 29-year-old father on counts of illegally smuggling undocumented people as well as of conspiracy to commit that crime. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago HMRC workers admit £47m loss after phishing scam breaches 100,000 taxpayer accounts

Two senior civil servants at HM Revenue and Customs told the Treasury Committee that 100,000 people have been contacted after the breach

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2 w. ago HMRC has lost £47m after hack breaches the accounts of 100,000 UK taxpayer

Two senior civil servants at HMRC told the Treasury Committee that 100,000 people are being contacted after the breach

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2 w. ago HMRC has lost £47 million in breach of 100,000 taxpayer accounts, MPs hear

Taxpayers who are being contacted will suffer ‘no financial loss’, according to John-Paul Marks, the chief executive of HMRC.

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2 w. ago Prevent referrals for young people has doubled since last summer, says Cooper

The Home Secretary told the Commons Home Affairs Committee she was ‘really worried’ about ‘increasing extremism among young people’.

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3 w. ago Family 'falling apart' as simple mistake turns dream Egypt holiday into nightmare

Granmother-of-five Margaret Houghton, 65, was on the trip of a lifetime to Egypt when she was stuck down by pneumonia and rushed to hospital where she developed a bacteria infection

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4 w. ago The least ‘integrated’ part of British society isn’t the immigrants – it’s the elite | Andy Beckett

Politicians and the rightwing press talk about integration in a selective and politically loaded way. The reality is quite differentAmid all the acrimony surrounding Keir Starmer’s recent remarks on immigration – a row that could follow him into retirement and beyond – there has been one little-examined area of agreement between the prime minister and his critics. “When people come to our country,” Starmer said, “they should also commit to integration.” You may believe that integration is not best achieved by government decree, yet in conversations about what sort of society Britain should be, it has long been generally accepted that integration is a good thing – not just for immigrants but for everyone.Mixing, empathising and collaborating with people who aren’t like you has benefits, the argument goes, for individuals and the country as a whole. Perspectives are broadened. Inequalities are softened, at least a little. Lives are enriched, and feelings of loneliness and alienation a...

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