The Multiplier Effect

In: New statesman & society, Band 1, Heft 15, S. 26-27

Abstract

Though the sums obtained by social security fraud in GB are minimal, an army of fraud investigators has continued to expand. The fraud investigation divisions of the Depts of Employment & Social Security are described, & fault is found with the formula that they use to justify their existence in terms of the amount of money they regularly save the nation -- the "weekly benefit saving." It is argued that these figures reflect the activities of honest rather than dishonest claimants, & that the real fraud lies in the continuation of funding for these snoopers. 1 Illustration. K. Hyatt