{"id":72867,"date":"2016-07-29T14:58:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T14:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=8fdbc00dd942ffa52defa546098e3245"},"modified":"2016-07-29T14:58:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T14:58:32","slug":"news-story-fraudulent-claims-to-the-criminal-injuries-compensation-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=72867","title":{"rendered":"News story: Fraudulent claims to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) is committed to preventing and tackling fraud to ensure the protection of public funds.<\/p>\n<p>In the past 12 months, CICA referred a number of cases to police authorities after identifying suspected fraudulent activity on claims for compensation.<\/p>\n<p>These referrals have resulted in prosecutions and other successful outcomes, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Custodial sentences and community orders for failing to disclose convictions and\/or submitting duplicate claims<\/li>\n<li>Suspended prison sentence handed down for providing false information<\/li>\n<li>A custodial sentence for misappropriation of an award of compensation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CICA have updated their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/criminal-injuries-compensation-authority\/about\/about-our-services\">Customer Charter<\/a> to reflect their commitment to tackling fraud.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CICA statement on tackling fraudulent compensation claims<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}