Income Support and Investigations Directorate MALTA

Facts:
• The Benefit Fraud and Investigation Department has been operating since 2006
• It has effected savings estimated at €38,000,000
• Over 10,000 benefits have been reviewed or stopped

The above was achieved with a Cost/Savings ratio of €7.56:€100 (for the period 2006 – 2015)

The savings effected are enough to provide for the building of four new schools!

The Benefit Fraud and Investigation Department takes social benefit fraud seriously.

There has to be a good reason for investigating someone for social benefit fraud. This is why you need to give as much of the following information as possible when requesting an investigation:

a) the name and address of the person you’re reporting and their partner, if they have one

b) the type of benefit abuse you think they are committing and why you suspect them

c) information about their employer, if you think they’re working

d) information about their vehicle, if they have one

The information you provide is strictly confidential.

You don’t have to give us your name unless you want us to contact you for more information.

The Benefit Fraud and Investigation Department encourages you to continue to send in your Requests for Investigations or to phone on 80072345 (freephone) and report on cases where there is suspected social benefit fraud.

It has been noted that since this page was launched, the number of Requests has increased.

Let us continue in this fight against social benefits abuse together.

Thanks to your support, the Department is being notified of new cases of suspected abuse in social benefits.

Continue to forward to us your Requests for Investigation on:

http://mfss.gov.mt/en/bfid/Pages/Request-for-investigation-form.aspx

http://mfss.gov.mt/en/bfid/Pages/Talba-Kunfidenzjali-ghal-Investigazzjoni.aspx

80072345 - this is a freephone

To report suspected Benefit Fraud, you can ring the Benefit Fraud Department on 80072345 which is a freephone number. All calls are treated in absolute confidence. A trained member of staff will take any information you can provide regarding people committing benefit fraud.

Benefit Fraud is theft. Report it now.

One can submit a request for investigation on alleged cases of
Social Benefit fraud through different sources:-

Telephone – by using the freephone (80072345)

Emails – generic ([email protected])

Website – online Request for Investigation - http://mfss.gov.mt/en/bfid/Pages/Request-for-investigation-form.aspx

Websajt - Talba Kunfidenzjali ghal Investigazzjoni -
http://mfss.gov.mt/en/bfid/Pages/Talba-Kunfidenzjali-ghal-Investigazzjoni.aspx


All reports are treated with confidentiality.

www.benefitfraud.gov.mt

80072345 - this is a freephone

To report suspected Benefit Fraud, you can ring the Benefit Fraud Department on 80072345 which is a freephone number and all calls are treated in absolute confidence. A trained member of staff will take any information you can provide regarding people committing benefit fraud.