DWP changed my address to "private and confidential"

So I got an email from my council asking me if I still lived here as they say the info the DWP shares with them has changed and now my address is listed as "private and confidential".

Google AI says this is done during fraud investigations. Its not clear if that is true I havent been able to confirm it

Now I am due to attend a hearing next week, its the second part of the hearing and initially the judge told the DWP to recalculate my benefits and to disregard the cost of living payments. The DWP paid out on this in Oct, but didnt provide the workings out for months and when they did neither I or the CAB could make sense of it. Ive been reluctant to withdraw the appeal until the DWP admit they should have disregarded the cost of living payments, but they havent issued the relevant form ( LT203c ) to say they are not challenging further (but they have paid).

Anyway as I say thats next week… Im hoping to cancel if I can get clarification from CAB.

The month after they paid the back payment, they started making the same mistake again. I asked for a mandatory reconsideration and Im still waiting (Oct). Two weeks ago they paid me six months of UC that they had had some sort of freeze on (they didnt deduct the COLPs though).

So when Google AI said fraud investigation I started wondering what they are up to. Ive had a hell of a time over last few weeks with my banks randomly declining payments (Ive got phone phobia so its hard to find out whats going on. But the conversations I have had on the online chats have been really weird loops of nonsense. So could they have said something to my banks that caused increased security on my accounts?

That said I had some weird phone calls and emails over last few days too, internet links number to scams. Nothing on my accounts looks suspicious to me. Ive frozen my cards to try to be safe- but its all quite stressful.

I am getting a bit paranoid maybe, but it is weird right?