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Richard J. Anderson ✅ 🥔

6 days ago

Richard J. Anderson ✅ 🥔
6 days ago

Content warning: public welfare fraud

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Memetic Guerilla Scholar Warrior 🏴✅ 6 days ago

@sanspoint what you "social safety net" is a program based on theft.

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Richard J. Anderson ✅ 🥔 6 days ago

@dtluna *plonk*

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Hyp☀️li🌷e Pet🌸van (he/him) 6 days ago

I didn't know "plonk" had such a specific meaning! Thanks for making me look up for it.

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Hyp☀️li🌷e Pet🌸van (he/him) 6 days ago

What forms does this employee fraud take?

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Richard J. Anderson ✅ 🥔 6 days ago

@hypolite Not long after I started, someone in my office got busted for putting about $200,000 in cash benefits on the EBT card of a dead man.

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Hyp☀️li🌷e Pet🌸van (he/him) 6 days ago

Jesus H. Christ.

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@sanspoint indeed! Also, have some data from across the pond: https://femavis.herokuapp.com/index.html

(actual gov.uk link, believe it or not)

Fraud *plus* error is about 2% of spend. Fraud is < 0.5% of spend.

There is also a significant benefits *underpayment* problem. gov.uk probably comes out well ahead most years

DWP Fraud and Error

Explore official statistics on benefit fraud and error using this interactive data visualisation from DWP.

^{femavis.herokuapp.com}

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