There are a tiny tiny number of scam artists out there
That number is nearly zero, yet they continue to make the benefits system harder and harder to navigate each passing year to “protect” the tax payer from this “fraud” (causing deep distress to, and even the deaths of thousands of disabled people), while significantly more rich people are scamming the tax system for billions and no one bats an eye.
None of this was ever about fraud, or concern for the tax payer, it’s about ableism and control (mostly to show the worker cogs what will happen to them when they can’t work any more, so they better work extra hard to make sure it doesn’t. Hint: working hard doesn’t protect you from disability or old age, it just makes the owner of your work place more money).
I work for a public body here. Even they exploit loopholes to get more money. Like claiming expenses on agencies and private firms when they own both of those. And witholding pay from employees for 6 months so they can put it in high interest/high risk banking accounts to drive up their wealth.
That number is nearly zero, yet they continue to make the benefits system harder and harder to navigate each passing year to “protect” the tax payer from this “fraud” (causing deep distress to, and even the deaths of thousands of disabled people), while significantly more rich people are scamming the tax system for billions and no one bats an eye.
None of this was ever about fraud, or concern for the tax payer, it’s about ableism and control (mostly to show the worker cogs what will happen to them when they can’t work any more, so they better work extra hard to make sure it doesn’t. Hint: working hard doesn’t protect you from disability or old age, it just makes the owner of your work place more money).
I work for a public body here. Even they exploit loopholes to get more money. Like claiming expenses on agencies and private firms when they own both of those. And witholding pay from employees for 6 months so they can put it in high interest/high risk banking accounts to drive up their wealth.