Skip to content or view screen version

Targeting Benefit Fraud

A Passing Shopper | 14.05.2009 01:40 | Education | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Liverpool

The Government has set up a means to deal with Benefit Fraud. A Free Benefit Fraud Hotline.

The National Benefit Fraud Hotline is for reporting Benefit Fraud. Since the Tax and Benefits system became integrated, "Benefit Fraud" can be interpreted to mean any kind of Public Benefit.

Millions of pounds are spent targeting non-specific offenders to very little apparent effect. Identifying, naming and shaming specific offenders has been suggested as public policy by several Members of Parliament.

The attached video identifies, names and shames. The decision to prosecute, the DWP site informs us, depends on a number of factors, including: "was the fraud an abuse of trust?"

A Passing Shopper

Comments

Display the following 6 comments

  1. Name and shame the tax dodgers. — Jolly Roger
  2. The net is closing in? — Twiggs
  3. not new campaign — dole scum
  4. Dole Scum — Passing Shopper
  5. never thought I'd be supporting a Daily Mail campaign ;-) — @narchist
  6. More unclaimed than cheated — Danny