There is a ticking time-bomb of Covid-related fraud across the U.K.

Matters have come to a head following a report from an influential cross-party parliamentary committee, which has said that the U.K.’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has lost control of the country’s major form of social security payment — Universal Credit. This comes after new figures showed billions of pounds were lost to scams during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic.