112 False representations for obtaining benefit etc
Social Security Administration Act 1992 (1992 c 5) | Legislation

112  False representations for obtaining benefit etc

(1)     If a person for the purpose of obtaining any benefit or other payment under the [relevant] [social security legislation] whether for himself or some other person, or for any other purpose connected with that legislation—

(a)     makes a statement or representation which he knows to be false; or

(b)     produces or furnishes, or knowingly causes or knowingly allows to be produced or furnished, any document or information which he knows to be false in a material particular,

he shall be guilty of an offence.

[(1A)     A person shall be guilty of an offence if—

(a)     there has been a change of circumstances affecting any entitlement of his to any benefit or other payment or advantage under any provision of the relevant social security legislation;

(b)     the change is not a change that is excluded by regulations from the changes

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