A TEAM set up to tackle fraud in Argyll and Bute has recovered almost £80,000 in its first year.
Argyll and Bute Council’s Corporate Fraud Investigation Team (CFIT) formed in October 2015 and is responsible for investigating revenue and benefit fraud, council tax, non-domestic rates and other corporate fraud. It also acts as a single point of contact for ongoing housing benefit fraud investigations.
At the end of its inaugural year of operation in September, the team had detected £175,000 of fraud and successfully recovered almost half of that figure (£79,535) with work ongoing to recover the remainder.