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What you are talking about is the "estimated" cost of "known" fraud. They are two guesstimates.
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These are from the Benefits Agency and their "Targetting Benefit Fraud" website. Somehow I *really* don't think they're going to *under* estimate the monies involved!!
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Anyway, saying "The only "financial benefits" will be to the companies who get the lucrative contracts to develop and implement the scheme" is untrue, as by your own figures there could be a benefit of around £50 million.
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So you would spend one *hundred* times that amount to save £50 million???
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And you quote David Blunkett as a reliable source? Yes, well...
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Why on earth would he have any interest in mis-representing the figures in that case? What political benefits would there be??
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I don't know how much financial benefit the scheme could bring. Anyone who claims to know is, quite frankly, lying.
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So you have *NO* idea, yet you're willing to throw enough money into it to build, fit out and staff a whole bunch of police stations, hospitals and so on, on the off-chance that there may actually be some benefit down the line?
