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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Whats your thoughts on that? granted no proof to back it, but do you think that figure is wrong?
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You will be asked for proof
No the figure is not wrong but is fairly old. It is the figure released by DWP and presumably within the report are the numbers that caused such consternation within the coalition. For DLA, errors were 3X fraud but I guess people are easy to deal with whereas bureaucrats behind computer systems are almost impossible to address.
This URL links to a DWP Pdf file. Read down to the box on where the money goes and under incapacity benefit fraud you will find the 0.5 number. Like an accountant having a field day with an Excel spreadsheet there are enough statistics and guestimates to make the whole thing incomprehensible but on a quick read through it looks like if the payee and recipient were in the case of the former, incompetent and in the case of the latter given forms that were incomprehensible. An awful lot of money could have been saved with efficiency. Methinks the cross-hairs are trained on the wrong target as first choice.
http://campaigns.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd2...pr08_mar09.pdf