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The real benefts cheats? The Stasi ranks of Hard Labour

submitted by rasealy 825 days ago (via guardian.co.uk)

The Guardian's Zoe Williams on Labour's proposal to reward neighbours who snitch on alleged benefit cheats, with a share of the recovered funds.

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by rasealy 825 days ago

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This is so typical of Nu-Lab. For every £1 lost in benefit fraud £16 is saved by virtue of a complicated bureaucracy, which deters genuine claimants. Rather than looking to simplify the benefits system, Labour prefer to ape the Tories and bash the weakest elements of society in an effort to look macho. The £1.1bn lost in benefit fraud is a drop in the ocean compared to the billions of tax pounds spent on bailing out RBS, HBOS et al. It seems perverse that this dead duck government is ha

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