As the Labour Party Conference is underway and the new government cautiously outlines its plans for Britain after 14 years of Conservative leadership, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has unveiled new legislation that would give the department extensive new powers to tackle fraud – a move that seems eerily familiar.

Despite recent overhauls at the DWP to revamp disability benefit assessments and view claimants as “individuals”, the newly proposed bill by the Government appears to…