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Reporting Suspected Fraud And Abuse

1. Reporting Suspected Fraud and Abuse of Social Security Benefits

We do our best to preserve the integrity of the social security system and guard against fraud and abuse of social security benefits. If you have any information on any person suspected to have obtained welfare payment by deception, do:

  • report to our social security field units;
  • call the Report Fraud Hotline at 2332 0101;
  • complete the 'Information Form on fraudulent claims for CSSA' and send it by post or by fax (fax no. 2718 8595). The 'Information Form' can be downloaded in this homepage or obtained from our social security field units, integrated family service centres of Social Welfare Department, district offices of the Home Affairs Department and management offices of the Housing Department; or
  • email to us at oicfit1@swd.gov.hk or oicfit2@swd.gov.hk.

Upon receipt of your report, the Department will take follow-up action according to the information provided. There is no need for you to make a duplicate report unless you have supplementary information to provide in respect of the suspected fraud cases.

Elaborate safeguards are built into the procedures of handling reports and to ensure that all information provided by informants is treated in strict confidence so as to protect them.

2. More information (downloadable)

Description
Document Format
Information Form on fraudulent claims for Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) PDF (Acrobat Document) MS-Word (MSWord Document)

   
3. Statistics 

A. Number of reports on suspected fraud CSSA cases received from the public

Financial Year No. of fraud reports received through Total
Report Fraud Hotline
(Note 1)
Letter Information Form on Fraudulent Claims on CSSA
(Note 2)
2001 - 2002 2 352 475 162 2 989
2002 - 2003 3 156 606 191 3 953
2003 - 2004 3 342 765 147 4 254
2004 - 2005 3 714 820 165 4 699

 2005 - 2006

3 652

 905

 355

 4 912

2006 - 2007

3 424

948

397

4 769

 2007 - 2008

 3 433

683 

 353

 4 469

2008- 2009
(as at 30 June 2008
)

 856  159

98

 1 113


Note 1 : The Report Fraud Hotline was set up in August 1998
Note 2 : The 'Information Form on fraudulent claims for CSSA' was put into use in May 2000.

B. Court result on CSSA cases with fraud established

Result
Financial Year Imprisonment Bound
over
Community service
order
Fine Issue of
stern warning
by police
Found
not guilty
Total
2001 - 2002 35 1 12 0 1 0 49
2002 - 2003 50 2 11 0 4 2 69
2003 - 2004 35 3 13 1 0 0 52

 2004 - 2005

22

1

9

0

11

 1

44

2005 - 2006

69

2

30

1

23

1

126

 2006 - 2007

108

0

29

 1

27 

167 

2007 - 2008 148 7 72 2 22 6 257
2008 - 2009
(as at 
30 June 2008)
33 2 13 1 5 2 56






   
 

 

 

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