Reposted by Mike Roller
The government is looking at another benefit crackdown when it should, instead, be looking at corporate fraud and its own failure to pay all the benefits owing to people. Why has it got its focus so wrong? Does it just hate people on benefits? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...
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Why is the government obsessed with benefit fraud?
The FT has reported that:
Ministers are examining proposals to grant banks access to all of the accounts of benefit claimants.
They added:
Officials in the Department for Work and Pensions have been a...