Things are being looked at the wrong way round.
An extra 2,500 fraud investigators are going to be added to the current 4,500, taking the overall number to around 6000.
This is a politically motivated move, looking for votes for the general election, grabbing the headlines. and picking on the most vulnerable, because not enough of them vote as a consequence.
Why don’t you employ those extra 2,500 people to look for people who don’t pay their taxes or use loopholes to avoid paying their taxes or big companies that avoid paying their fair share of taxes… the list goes on.
They should be looking for those people who earn more than a million pounds a year but pay less tax than someone on 30 thousand pounds a year.
Neither benefit fraud or tax fraud should be allowed to happen but the biggest loss to this country’s balance sheet is through tax fraud and loopholes or irregularities in payments by the mega rich.
Chasing more vulnerable people for less money is obviously motivated by political gain. That much is obvious.
