It’s in the governments interests to sustain promoting the very myths that sustain the benefit fraud hotline ringing – and distract us from genuine social problemsI can’t decide what is most disturbing: that more than 85% of allegations of benefit fraud attach forward by the public over the past five years have been false,or that this is approximately almost 900000 out of more than a million cases.
That isnt a handful of mistaken or malicious individuals. It’s a widespread anti-benefit mindset that – over five years of austerity – has rooted itself in British culture: through Benefits Street type-television, the rhetoric of politicians, or the pages of national newspapers.
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Source: theguardian.com