Re: £50 million taken by Bulgarian fraudsters
The government at the time were actually encouraging people to claim sickness benefit, DHSS office staff were pushing long term unemployed claimants towards sickness benefit to massage the figures. The figures for unemployment went down but the overall costs went up greatly with the sickness benefit and when they were off 'sick' for over 12 months peoples money increased pushing the costs up even higher . A very expensive PR exercise.
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