The failure to crack down on fraud makes it even less likely that the Government will fulfil its promise to slash fraud and error by a quarter by 2015.After a while, welfare should be conditional - depending on how much National Insurance claimants have paid in.
The sentencing is also woeful. Benefit thieves should know they will have to pay back twice what they stole, and get no benefits until they have. And any who don't go to prison should also have to do community service.
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The biggest benefit fraud is the £10 billion a year which people at DWP pay themselves in salaries in order to dish out about £50 billion in total means-tested benefits.
If the government know that there is £3.3 billion in fraud then it can be assumed they know who is committing the fraud. Therefore they should have no problem wiping out the fraud, but as they seem to be struggling to identify & catch so claimed fraudulent claimants then it seems the government are pulling figures out of thin air.
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