MCFC Wirral
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I’ve read some of his bile before and I disagree.
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Biggest Benefit Scam
- Thread starter Man-chester copperpot
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I’ve read some of his bile before and I disagree.
urban genie
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earned or inherited money also attracts the corrupt and thievery.Imagine if there weren’t these big money benefits and people had to get a job within a certain period or got struck off the rolls?
“Free money” will always attract corruption and theft! The UK is not unique in this area.
Just look at our governents and wealthy corperations plus the top 1%,
kaz7
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Benefits are not big money , this is a unique case of fraud, you have to be looking for a job and fourty percent of uc is for people in work to be able to live as they are not paid enough. There are many reasons you cant take certain jobs , travel costs etc for instanceImagine if there weren’t these big money benefits and people had to get a job within a certain period or got struck off the rolls?
“Free money” will always attract corruption and theft! The UK is not unique in this area.
manimanc
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Good on them, nice to hear they're being looked after.I have 2 very old friends who are ex army (Falklands and 1st Gulf war).
They both live in council bungalows paid for by the state.
Maybe I should wind my neck in.
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader
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Someone finally checking after they'd got their hands on quite a large amount of loot, and certainly not caught by somebody checking on their credentials and finding they were a bunch of scammers. They always get caught sooner or later, and apart from a custodial sentence they've live the life of Riley!How do you think these people got caught?
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader
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Well the checks can't be too thorough. These scams seem to be a constant. It would seem the 'system' needs to be far more robust.There are. If you ever have trouble sleeping I recommend reading the Good Practice Guide (GPG) 45 on the gov.uk domain.
But if people have access to falsely acquired, official documents there's little you can do.
One fraudster had 9 driving licences in different names. A driving licence meets two critical identity criteria of being a government issued document (and therefore subject to its own security checks) and having a photograph of the holder. Similarly a passport. It's regarded as a high bar.
Man-chester copperpot
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The last point i’m going to make is that we are not talking about £5,400 or £54,000 - it was FIFTY FOUR MILLION POUNDS FFS!
If you robbed that from a bank what would happen?
If you robbed that from a bank what would happen?
Alan Harper's Tash
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The problem is that the more stringent the checks are, the more likely the people that genuinely qualify for welfare will be the first ones to suffer sanction.Well the checks can't be too thorough. These scams seem to be a constant. It would seem the 'system' needs to be far more robust.
Humans will always try to scam every system.
ali benarbia's studs
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What kind of time would they be going down for?
It should be on par with armed robbery.
It should be on par with armed robbery.
kaz7
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Gov figures are 0.7% of benefits is fraud and that includes mistakes made by the dwp themselves , tiny amount of fraud , this case is not normalWell the checks can't be too thorough. These scams seem to be a constant. It would seem the 'system' needs to be far more robust.