There are a tiny tiny number of scam artists out there. And the conservatives (in my country at least) latch onto that and ignore the vast majority that they hurt whole trying to avoid that tiny minority taking advantage.
And I’m 100% convinced it’s because they would scam the system themselves.
There are a tiny tiny number of scam artists out there
That number is nearly zero, yet they continue to make the benefits system harder and harder to navigate each passing year to “protect” the tax payer from this “fraud” (causing deep distress to, and even the deaths of thousands of disabled people), while significantly more rich people are scamming the tax system for billions and no one bats an eye.
None of this was ever about fraud, or concern for the tax payer, it’s about ableism and control (mostly to show the worker cogs what will happen to them when they can’t work any more, so they better work extra hard to make sure it doesn’t. Hint: working hard doesn’t protect you from disability or old age, it just makes the owner of your work place more money).
I work for a public body here. Even they exploit loopholes to get more money. Like claiming expenses on agencies and private firms when they own both of those. And witholding pay from employees for 6 months so they can put it in high interest/high risk banking accounts to drive up their wealth.
Also lets not forget the 19 billion pounds in benefits people are entitled to that go unclaimed because they’ve made it (deliberately of course) too hard and/or shameful to claim.
There are a tiny tiny number of scam artists out there. And the conservatives (in my country at least) latch onto that and ignore the vast majority that they hurt whole trying to avoid that tiny minority taking advantage.
And I’m 100% convinced it’s because they would scam the system themselves.
That number is nearly zero, yet they continue to make the benefits system harder and harder to navigate each passing year to “protect” the tax payer from this “fraud” (causing deep distress to, and even the deaths of thousands of disabled people), while significantly more rich people are scamming the tax system for billions and no one bats an eye.
None of this was ever about fraud, or concern for the tax payer, it’s about ableism and control (mostly to show the worker cogs what will happen to them when they can’t work any more, so they better work extra hard to make sure it doesn’t. Hint: working hard doesn’t protect you from disability or old age, it just makes the owner of your work place more money).
I work for a public body here. Even they exploit loopholes to get more money. Like claiming expenses on agencies and private firms when they own both of those. And witholding pay from employees for 6 months so they can put it in high interest/high risk banking accounts to drive up their wealth.
In the UK data once said it was 2% that was genuinely fraudulent …though my memory of it is about 10 years out of date
Also lets not forget the 19 billion pounds in benefits people are entitled to that go unclaimed because they’ve made it (deliberately of course) too hard and/or shameful to claim.