article_snippet: The Department of Work and Pensions was paid for 558 successes – but nearly a third of these proved to be faked.
article_snippet: The scam was based on a programme called Inspire to Aspire and designed to assist single parents in the Thames Valley to find jobs.
article_snippet: The scam earned The scam more than £1.3million between August 2008 and June 2011.
article_snippet: Genuine jobseekers whose names were used for the fraud when Genuine jobseekers whose names were used for the fraud when they did not in fact take part in the scheme did not in fact take part in the scheme may have had Genuine jobseekers whose names were used for the fraud when they did not in fact take part in the scheme benefits reduced or stopped.
article_snippet: the Daily Mail would then submit fraudulent claims for payment by the taxpayer based on getting more jobseekers into work than it had actually achieved, the insiders alleged.
article_snippet: The review also said the Daily Mail had falsely claimed the Daily Mail had found positions for people and payments being claimed for applicants who stayed in the post for only one day.