119 Benefit offences: sanctions for repeated benefit fraud
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (2012 c 5) | Legislation

119  Benefit offences: sanctions for repeated benefit fraud

(1)     The Social Security Fraud Act 2001 is amended as follows.

(2)     In section 6B (loss of benefit in case of conviction, penalty or caution for benefit offence), in subsection (3) for “later“ there is substituted “current”.

(3)     Section 7 (loss of benefit for second or subsequent conviction of benefit offence) is amended as follows.

(4)     In the heading, for “second or subsequent conviction of benefit offence” there is substituted “repeated benefit fraud“.

(5)     For subsection (1)(a) to (e) there is substituted—

“(a)     a person (“the offender”) is convicted of one or more benefit offences in a set of proceedings (“the current set of proceedings”),

(b)     within the period of five years ending on the date on which the benefit offence was, or any of them were, committed, one or more disqualifying events occurred in relation to the offender (the event, or the most recent of them, being referred to in this section as “the earlier disqualifying event”),

(c)     the current set of proceedings has not been taken into account for the purposes of any previous application of this section or section 8 or 9 in relation to the offender or any person

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