Re: Government Noses

[Roland Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
> Or perhaps you can explain how you manage to obtain such information without
> prior surveillance of people who are only suspected of benefit fraud,  in
> such a way that your success hit rate is very nearly 100%?

Don't laugh, but the DWP Bill Team working on the SSF Bill assured 
industry that they had a 99% conviction rate when prosecuting benefits 
fraud, and therefore really did only want data on actual criminals.

I'm not sure if this is because they only prosecute the most blatant 
cases, or whether almost everyone involved in receiving benefits commits 
some kind of technical offence (the forms are complicated enough I can 
believe this might be true).
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Roland Perry