Work and pensions minister Chris Grayling was debating some policy wonk from Demos on the Today Programme over the announcement that credit checking agency Experian will be put on payment-by-results incentives to tackle benefit fraud. |
Yet that 1% stat turns out to be entirely kosher, based as it is on government figures. That graphic is from here. The reality is that benefit fraud – while not morally commendable – is far, far less prevalent than anybody would reasonably expect, especially given the blanket media coverage of those who are caught out. |
The £1bn a year it costs the taxpayer is little more than small change in comparison with the £850bn spent on the bank bailout. That figure is one that everybody on the left should commit to memory ahead of the debates with the right that inevitably lie ahead. |
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