Bliar goes after bogus benefit claimants & burglar
Discussion
But does he really mean it, or is he just stealing Tory policies just in time for the election?
Today's news shows that the government are cracking down on people who are claiming incapacity benefits who aren't actually incapacitated, and you can also use 'reasonable force' to defend yourself against, or incapacitate a burglar in your house.
Common sense, or policy theft that they don't actually intend to carry out? What do we think?
Today's news shows that the government are cracking down on people who are claiming incapacity benefits who aren't actually incapacitated, and you can also use 'reasonable force' to defend yourself against, or incapacitate a burglar in your house.
Common sense, or policy theft that they don't actually intend to carry out? What do we think?
This may not be a popular view here on PH, but if he is serious about saving money by stopping fraudulent claims , I think he should be looking at fraudulent income tax claims and corporate tax claims by the richest among us, not trying to weed out those who are better off on one kind of benefit than the other.
I do agree that fraudulent benefit claims are a problem, but I seem to remember reading that Tax evation costs the treasury over £60billion a year and Benefit fraud cost about £3Billion a year.
>> Edited by hedders on Tuesday 1st February 18:25
I do agree that fraudulent benefit claims are a problem, but I seem to remember reading that Tax evation costs the treasury over £60billion a year and Benefit fraud cost about £3Billion a year.
>> Edited by hedders on Tuesday 1st February 18:25
hedders said:
I do agree that fraudulent benefit claims are a problem, but I seem to remember reading that Tax evation costs the treasury over £60billion a year and Benefit fraud cost about £3Billion a year.
>> Edited by hedders on Tuesday 1st February 18:25
Tax evasion or tax avoidance? There's a big difference
Eric Mc said:
He aparently made a similar speech 5 years ago. Since then the number of people claiming Incapacity Benefit has RISEN by 100,000.
He did. If you were to look at the figures for benefit claimants, you could be forgiven for thinking that there is a distinct relationship between those that were previously claimng JSA and those that started to claim IB in the recent past. In essence, the rules were changed to massage the figures into looking like JSA claims were reduced by shipping people onto IB. I fully expect the IB figures to be sucessfully reduced and no doubt JSA or maybe something else will go up to compensate.
Oh, and onthe point about fat cats. There is a difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion.
At the end of the day, elections are won on economics. If the economy has been buoyant, the government is trusted and kept in, so Labour will get in and stay in until there's a big crash of some sort.
I wish people cared more about other issues and actually read manifestos rather than just OKing everything so long as they're 'alright'.
I wish people cared more about other issues and actually read manifestos rather than just OKing everything so long as they're 'alright'.
v8thunder said:
Today's news shows that the government are cracking down on people who are claiming incapacity benefits who aren't actually incapacitated, and you can also use 'reasonable force' to defend yourself against, or incapacitate a burglar in your house......
Have I got this right?
If I properly incapacitate a burglar, he can claim benefit..........
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