Anyone living in the real world (unlike Jones and Gary) knows that the maximum sentence allowable for benefit fraud is never, ever, ever, going to be handed down to ordinary people who've fiddled a few quid on their benefits, matter what they like to pretend. Neither are such sentences routinely going to be tougher than those applied to rapists, murderers and paedophiles but let's not be realistic eh? They're not even going to be applied to people who've, like this civil servant, defrauded the taxpayer out of £110,000 and only got 8 months just a few weeks ago.
http://www.bromleytimes.co.uk/news/c...raud_1_4081173
The fact is that there are serial and serious fraudsters and it's right that when caught they should face 10 years behind bars. Frankly I wish it was more and just for those who're easily 'confused', that's not the same as saying that benefit fraud is or should be treated more seriously than rape...