Benefit Fraud

[redvanman]

Finger print all and then you will find how many times some are claiming in different names it will cut the benefit payed out by quiet a lot i bet

[MadMen]

Or, better idea, how about micro chipping!

[ummmm]

Okay. Write to DWP and advise them on your idea.

[emmie]

dog collar and lead if you like, i have heard some people like that sort of thing.

[2sp_]

Get them to wear badges so we'd be able to spot them easily if they were out in public.

Or, we could just round them all up and keep them in special camps...

[daffy654]

In many cases you don't ever see anyone in person when making a claim for benefits, it is done by phone, post or internet mostly.

[sara3]

benefit claims are linked via computers by national insurance numbers. the only people who attempt to make multiple claims will have multiple forged/stolen ID docs to back up a national insurance number. it's not so common these days.

[factor-fiction]

Except they normally have to come in once a fortnight, daffy, to 'sign on', although maybe there are exceptions for some disability benefit claimants, and I don't recall Abul Hamza (or was it the other one) having to sign on every two weeks

[trt]

No chance of that happening, what about their human rights? :-)

[factor-fiction]

How many people do you know, redvanman, that claim in more than one name? Or is it just an urban myth that lots of people do it. Where I think fraud may take place is people claiming for more children than they have, but even then the scale is small

[Hopkirk]

No doubt the likes of Cherie Blair would say we were infringing someone's human rights.

[redvanman]

You stupid boy

[redvanman]

You stupid boy

[factor-fiction]

Don't put yourself down, redvanman. We all make mistakes

[redvanman]

you probley berry your head in the sand factor-fiction

[redvanman]

finger prints are a record for life and a good signature for any money trans actions finger print pads on cash machines banks and shops

[sara3]

but many claims are taken online, and multiple ID claims rarely happen.. as I have already said.

bringing in such technology and a new regime would be more costly than the potential loss to fraud.

[bibblebub]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/apr/24/10-great-urban-myths-debunked

"The DWP publishes official estimates of fraud in the welfare system. The most recent publication estimated overall fraud at 0.7% of the benefits bill. At £1.2bn, that sum might – just – be said to count as "billions". But we should remember benefits can be underpaid as well as overpaid – and last year, those underpayments (arising from errors by either officials or claimants) added up to £1.3bn – more than the cost of fraud."