January 16, 2006
Monday
The BBC makes progress and looks at benefit fraud
Another step forward: a six-part BBC series on benefits and how they got wrong. The first one, tonight, appears to be about benefit fraud. According the Telegraph,
David Street, the series' producer, said: "These are just a few of the cases that are prosecuted every year. The scale of fraud in disability living allowance claims is just staggering."I have made a lot of programmes about fraud and I have to say I was stunned by the size of this problem."
The full article is here.
The programme is on BBC1 at 8.30pm tonight and is called 'On the fiddle'.
Posted by James Bartholomew • Indexed in Behaviour & Crime • Media, including BBC bias • Parenting • Waste in public services • Welfare benefits
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It will be interesting to see how their findings compare to those of The Welfare State We're In. By definition, really, you can only make an educated guess at the scale of the fraud (if you knew it exactly then you would hope the DWP would correct it!), and I suspect the BBC will be too PC to make this guess. By definition 'known fraud' will be low.
Posted by: Alec Hodgson at January 16, 2006 05:38 PM