Report benefit fraud

Are you receiving welfare benefits? Report changes on time. The municipality actively checks whether someone is entitled to benefits. Do you think someone is fraudulent? Report this to the municipality. You can do this easily, quickly and even anonymously.

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Approach

This is how you report benefit fraud or suspected benefit fraud:

  • Contact the municipality. This may also be done anonymously.
  • You pass on:
    • who it is about
    • where the person lives
    • what kind of fraud is involved
    • Where and when fraud was committed
    • how much money is involved

Description

The municipality checks whether someone is entitled to welfare benefits. If you pass on wrong information or fail to pass on important information, this is called benefit fraud.

Examples of benefit fraud are when someone on welfare benefits:

  • fails to report a change in income or property (such as working black or having an expensive car)
  • does not pass on marriage or divorce
  • pretends to be divorced
  • lives together, but pretends to live alone
  • does not pass on the fact that he is in prison
  • gives a false address

Do you know someone receiving welfare benefits and think they are committing fraud? Report it to the municipality. Does the municipality also think someone is committing fraud? Then the municipality will start an investigation. For example, the municipality may make a home visit.

Does the investigation reveal that the person is committing fraud? Then that person must pay back all the money he received in excess. He must also pay a fine.

Learn more

Information on the rights and obligations of welfare benefits

Information about fraud on your welfare benefits

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