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£1.5bn tax credits wrongly paid out last year

Tax credits are still open to "significant" fraud and error, a Whitehall spending watchdog warned today as it refused to sign off the accounts for the sixth year in a row.

Tax credits are still open to "significant" fraud and error, a Whitehall spending watchdog warned today as it refused to sign off the accounts for the sixth year in a row.