In November I received a letter from DWP advising they would be contacting my employer to recover my Universal Credit Advance.
Letter was genuine - looks like easily found details on Company House for a minor PLC I am a director of was sufficient to get an advance payment without even having a NI number.
This was in August so not even at the height of the first lockdown.
Spoke to a person who said he had been told by a colleague they expected there had been several tens of thousands of fraudulent claims in the East Midlands alone (simillar population to Scotland)
The UC advance was nearly £1300 - that's a lot of taxpayers' loot disappeared into bitcoin...
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