Fraudulent State Benefit Application
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Immediately inform the benefit officer you are applying to and report the matter to the local police.
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Obtain a copy of your credit file to see whether this has been affected by any fraudulent activity.
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Identify any applications or organisations that you have no knowledge of. Return the credit file back to the Credit Agency with the items in question highlighted.
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You should then consider whether you should make a CIFAS referral which creates a referral procedure on all future applications for credit.