UK Politics
General Discussion for politics in the UK.
Please don't post to both !uk_politics@feddit.uk and !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk .
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.
Posts should be related to UK-centric politics, and should be either a link to a reputable news source for news, or a text post on this community.
Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.
If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread. (These things should be publicly discussed)
Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.
Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.
view the rest of the comments
I guess it's just not easy to make it harder for fraudulent claims without throwing up more and more obstacles for genuine claimants. It's especially problematic when dealing with health benefits, as genuine claimants tend to have less energy and drive for filling out applications and attending assessments than fraudsters who are in good health. Fraudulent claims is a real problem and something does have to be done - there have been cases where gangs have been siphoning off tons of money by creating claims on an industrial scale.
The amount of benefits lost to fraud has forever been dwarves by the amount of tax dodged.