National Fraud Initiative (NFI)

The National Fraud Initiative (NFI) began in 1996, and now runs every two years. It helps participants from local government, central government and the NHS to identify fraud and error.

Since 1996 over £11.5 million of fraudulent and erroneous payment have been detected in Wales. These include housing benefit, pension and student loan payments. Seventy public sector organisations in Wales participated in the latest NFI exercise. NFI 2006/2007, which identified fraudulent and erroneous payments with a value of £4.5 million and resulted in 26 successful prosecutions.