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Originally Posted by denphone
These are the latest figures in given by the DWP of fraud and error in the benefit system.
https://assets.publishing.service.go...-2017-2018.pdf
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There will be a level of abuse within any system of that there is no doubt but the reality of how much is often replaced by the lazy uninformed uneducated media trash that some form their opinions from..
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Absolutely as some patients long term medical conditions are never going to improve and only worsen as time goes on and they certainly should have to go through the constant bureaucratic hurdles which they are currently having to face as we have seen with the PIP fiasco.
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It will cost more more money then it saves. |
Exactly.
One thing these figures also miss is the £10 billion or so that is not claimed in the first place.
Whatever system there is creating hoops for the claimants to jump through, the fraudulent claimers will not be the ones affected. After all, they have put a lot of time and effort into making sure their income continues.
The people affected are those who are told they are fit to work, whilst being hooked up to machines to keep them going through their latest cancer treatment. Those who are vulnerable and bewildered by the whole system who end up abused by sharks and the likes of Atos.
The obsession with nit picking over a tiny percentage of benefit claimants, is a distraction from the real problem of a tax system so convoluted that the wealthy can pay a smaller percentage of their income in tax than the poorest.
Meanwhile the other beneficiaries are private companies being paid for gash assessments, which long term cause so much misery.
Tax evasion is a far bigger loss to government finances than fraudulent benefit claims.