Another interesting Facebook status

Here's the full text of a Facebook status from a group I follow called Respect For the Unemployed & Benefit Claimants.

Conservatives want to recycle benefit fraud myths -

Ask this question, who are the real scroungers in society ? ANSWER - corporations & those who commit TAX FRAUD !

Nearly £25 billion pound - is removed from benefit claimants due to benefit sanctions etc - compare this to the Department for Work and Pensions - DWP figures showing just over £1bn was lost to benefit fraud - and another £20 billion UNCLAIMED by claimants.

More information : https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-preliminary-201213-estimates .

The £25 billion pound that is removed from benefit claimants, due to benefit sanctions is legalised theft - that money belongs to benefit claimants !

Welfare payouts totalling £20 billion a year are going unclaimed by members of the public - almost 12 times the amount lost through fraud.

Ministers have long tried to keep the spotlight on a small number of fraudsters rather than ensuring that people entitled to support receive it.

The amount of benefit going unclaimed has risen to 'alarming levels' as benefit claimants become increasingly confused over the wide array forms needed to claim benefits & information required.

Average Cost Of Local Authority Benefit Fraud Per Case: £2,166.

Average Cost Of Tax Avoidance Per Case: £248,780

The astonishing average £248,780 cost of each tax avoidance case identified as outstanding at HM Revenue and Customs by the National Audit Office should be benchmarked for comparison. The total outstanding is nearly £15 billion.

So I’ve compared it with the average cost of each local authority housing and council tax fraud case identified in a report by the Audit Commission, also published this month. They found fraud of £117 million spread over 54,000 cases in 2011/12. That’s an average cost of £2,166 each. I suspect that is typical of all benefit frauds.

Now which one of those two requires more attention and publicity, do you think?

So why do we always hear about benefit fraud??

Interesting points, don't you think?

The Tory shame of Britain

Here's a status update from Facebook that I totally agree with and just had to share with my readers.

The status is from a group called The last person to enter parliament with honest intentions was Guy Fawkes.

If using your deceased, disabled son for sympathy votes doesn't show how much of a wretched human being you are, I don't know what does.

How he can even have the audacity to act like he's in support of people with disabilities or illness in any way, shape or form is beyond me. Look at their welfare "reform" which is really welfare withdrawal. Taking much needed and vital support from the most vulnerable people in our society.

Look at ATOS and how they consistently declare people who are clearly crippled due to ill health, fit for work. Many going on to die before ever getting anywhere near a workplace and having the tiny financial help they had yanked away from them in their last days, thus making their suffering far greater.

Look at their austerity measures which are creating more economic chaos than they're stopping. Look at them making cuts to the NHS when they promised they wouldn't. Look at their attempts to start privatising it
when everyone knows that anything that was once a national asset that was then privatised, becomes a national disgrace and another fist up the arse of the British public!

He is a disgrace and so is his rabble. Don't be fooled by this nonsense, people. A lot of people were stupid enough to vote Tony B-liar back in even after engaging in the most
horrendous and illegal acts of recent times. Don't be sucked in again. This man is filth. He is corrupt and so are his party.

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