Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
DWP could monitor social media and bank accounts of Universal Credit claimants over Christmas
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) will ramp up the number of Universal Credit claimants it is investigating for benefit fraud in the run up to Christmas, it has claimed.
The DWP has powers to monitor social media and bank activities of people accepting Universal Credit if they believe there is foul play at hand.
It was announced earlier this year that fraud and error in the benefits system in the UK has reached record levels, with £8.4 billion overpaid in the last financial year.
Officials estimate 3.9 per cent of benefits spending was overpaid during 2020/21 - the highest rate to date with some £6.3 billion of the overpayments believed to be due to fraud, primarily arising from Universal Credit claims. READ MORE: Tesco shopper
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