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date: 2025-12-09
link: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/covid-fraud-cost-uk-taxpayer-109-billion-reveals-independent-report
title: Covid fraud cost UK taxpayer £10.9 billion
cited: Gov.uk
tags: [ME]
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Any chance some recouped money could go to ME & Long Covid research?

> The Covid Counter Fraud Commissioner, Tom Hayhoe's, final report to Parliament finds many schemes - including Bounce Back Loans and Eat Out to Help Out - were rolled out with huge fraud risks and no early safeguards -- costing the taxpayer millions.
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> Weak accountability, bad quality data and poor contracting were identified as the primary causes of the £10.9 billion pound losses -- which were enough to fund daily free school meals for the UK's 2.7 million eligible children for eight years.