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COVID payments written off

A report in The Times has claimed that HMRC expects to recover only a quarter of the £5.8bn lost to fraudulent claims and mistaken payments across the various coronavirus support schemes that were launched during the pandemic. Figures released by the tax authority suggests that £4.3bn of the total amount lost to fraud has been written off which means a maximum of just £1 is expected to be recovered for every £4 lost.