The DWP says tens of thousands of benefit recipients were found breaching the rules in a test of the DWP’s plans to monitor people’s bank accounts. The Government is seeking to introduce legislation which will compel third parties – such as banks and building societies – to share information with the DWP. In its pursuit to “tackle fraud and error against the benefit system”, the department asked two unnamed banks to use internal data to identify accounts receiving specified types of benefit payments and matching the risk criteria provided by the DWP for capital and abroad entitlement rules. It…