Everytime the government need some publicity they announce another crackdown on benefit fraud. Fair enough you might say, people fiddling their benefits cost taxpayers a lot of money. And you would be right. 0.6% of the benefit budget, 800 million pounds is lost through fraud. But it is not the benefits systems biggest loss, far from it in fact.
Mistakes by claimants, because of the over complicated system designed to stop people claiming what they are entitled to, and mistakes by their incompetent staff cost far more. 1.9 billion last year to be exact!
So rather than trying to grab headlines wouldn't everybody be far better off if they simplified the system and sent all the staff back for retraining so that they actually know what they are doing? Maybe they could teach them some manners and respect for the people they are supposed to be helping at the same time?
But of course this will never happen while the clowns we have at the moment are in charge. These idiots are far more concerned with what looks good in the papers than what actually benefits the people of this country.
Just another perfect example of why our taxes are so ridiculously high in this country.
Here is a bird.
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