There was a cracking set of pieces this weekend about welfare dependency, the reasons for it, and how to crack the cycle.
Glasgow Labour MP Tom Harris led off with an article in the Mail with the long title Why is it 'Left wing' to allow millions to live on benefits and let children get each other pregnant, asks the ex-minister who broke Labour's last taboo. From a Labour politician it's a ground breaking piece, concentrating on the social and moral breakdown that the structure if welfare benefits has caused - read it in full.
Fraser Nelson followed it up in the News of the World and a Spectator blog. He points out that a girl leaving school without qualifications can get far more money through being a single parent than she will from the sort of jobs that will be open to her. The disparity is huge.
Hence also (though he does not make this point) the huge temptation of benefit fraud, the subject of this blog. It's remunerative, you're not likely to get caught, and if you're unlucky the punishments are often minimal. Benefit fraud costs us at least £2bn every year.
More about this wider analysis of welfare dependency here. On this blog we continue to drill down into benefit fraud.
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