Employees fiddle expenses for financial gain, says uSwitch.com

Mon, 22 Jun 2009

With the MPs' expenses scandal still making headlines in the national newspapers, uSwitch.com has found that Britain's workers outside of the Commons are also gaining from being economical with the truth.

Research by the website showed 2.7 million employees admit to having submitted false information when claiming for expenses to make average savings of £200 each year, £500 million in total.

Ways of doing this include exaggerating the car mileage when claiming back money on petrol, with 17 per cent of respondents admitting to this, and submitting receipts for personal meals with friends and family (four per cent).

Louise Bond, personal finance expert at uSwitch.com, said: "Employees must think long and hard, however, before exaggerating or submitting a bogus expense claim as it is unlikely that, what some might regard as a 'harmless' indiscretion, is worth losing a job over."

Recent research by price comparison site moneysupermarket.com found that British motorists are 'fronting' on their car insurance in order to save money, putting another person as the main driver on the application.
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