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Up to £3.5bn furlough scheme cash may have been wrongly paid out

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Error and fraud rate for scheme estimated at between 5% and 10%, says HMRC chiefCoronavirus –...
Error and fraud rate for scheme estimated at between 5% and 10%, says HMRC chiefCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe government believes it may have paid out up to £3.5bn in wrong or fraudulent claims for the furlough scheme.Jim Harra, the top civil servant at HM Revenue & Customs, said that his staff had calculated for the possibility that as much as...

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