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Child poverty campaigners slam Tory plans to tackle benefit fraud

1 min read Social Care
Child poverty campaigners have criticised Conservative plans to tackle benefit fraud, claiming they could plunge many low-income families further into poverty.

The Conservatives announced today that, if elected, they will implement a "three strikes" system to crack down on people who repeatedly defraud the benefits system.

Those who commit benefit fraud once will lose their out-of-work benefits for three months, a second offence will attract a benefit sanction of six months, and if someone commits fraud three times they face losing their out-of-work benefits for up to three years.

Shadow work and pensions secretary Theresa May announced the plans, claiming that "welfare waste has cost the public £80 every second" since 1997.

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