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Civil servant held three Government jobs at same time - with WFH blamed

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A senior civil servant was paid for multiple full-time jobs they held in different government departments at the same time.

Cabinet Office document detailing fraud in the public sector disclosed the official had held three jobs simultaneously on two separate occasions between 2022 and 2024 .

A damning report blamed working from home culture in the Civil Service for a rise in so-called 'polygamous working'.

Cabinet Office also discovered a similar case of dual employment at Barnsley Council .

A man was simultaneously employed on two 37 hour per week contracts over a period of 10 months .

He pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud that cost taxpayers almost 17,000 .

Overall, 67.4 m of fraud was detected by the Government’s National Fraud Initiative.

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