A Tangled Web

PUBLIC SECTOR FRAUD...



It's bad enough that the Government takes away so much of our hard-earned income, but now we read that here in Northern Ireland BENEFIT FRAUD is costing £120 milliona year. In a report, published on Friday, the public spending watchdog estimated that levels of fraud and error in income support was £37.5m, in housing benefit was £27.9m and jobseekers' allowance was £11.9m. This is a scandal and only in the vast wastage of the public sector could such incompetence happen without anyone losing their job.