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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
I don't doubt the reasons why old Gordon said this, what I don't doubt either are the figures, they show that in 2005 social security fraud cost Britain tens of millions and a lot of that fraud was carers allowance, disability benefit and incapacity benefit rip offs and what I also don't doubt is that once people start claiming, just how easy it is for the powers that be to 'forget' about them
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Tens of millions is a drop in the ocean.
If it is tens of millions the % would mean its a lot lower then 1 million people since 1 million is more then half claimants, thats quite a claim for a government to make to suggest more then half claimants are defrauding the system.
Of course when you compare it to government waste and tax evasion its pennies. Those 3 benefits you mention are recieved by a very vulnerable part of society who is unlikely to fight back in a way to affect a general election.
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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
Actually I used to work with the long term unemployed, helping them back into work, it was very specialised and we only took the most difficult cases on, quite a few of them had been written of due to sickness or length of unemployment, some didn't even have a cv despite years on the dole and tbh I was absolutely disgusted at their treatment in a lot of cases, oh and I like the way you put words in my mouth, at no time have I said everyone on benefits is a scrounger and tbh it isn't the money the work shy and skivers take that bothers me as you suggest, it's the fact they are wasting time, you only live once
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Yeah we all know there is some level of fraud but he is bang on right that its been massively exaggerated with the bbc's help via prime time documentaries and news reports. Its all timed to soften up the public for a welfare reform bill.