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Nine members of staff from welfare-to-work company A4e will be charged with fraud over alleged bogus claims for government payments, prosecutors said last night.

The workers are alleged to have forged documents to claim money from the Department for Work and Pensions that would have been paid when clients were found jobs.

It is claimed that some of the reward payments were made for people who never went to A4e or who had not been found employment.

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Sue Patten, head of fraud at the Crown Prosecution Service, said the charges were against six women and three men accused of forging documentation to support fraudulent claims.

“It is alleged that between February 2009 and February 2013 nine A4e employees including one contract manager, seven recruiters and an administrator, employed across three A4e offices in the South East of England, committed numerous offences of fraud,” she said.

All nine will appear at Slough Magistrates’ Court on October 14.