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Originally Posted by garinda
The same people who decide now if someone is entitled to these benefits in the first place.
At present many thousands of people who are entitled to these benefits, and who could keep some sort of independence, are slipping through the net, because it's so damn complicated. Whilst at the same time the current system allows thousands of others to succesfully fraudulently claim, when they shouldn't be getting a penny.
Watch BBC 1 at 9.15am, or Google News 'benefit fraud', to see how easy the present system is to defraud for those who are savvy to the holes in the current way it's fragmentedly organised, and which pays money to those swinging the lead, leaving some genuine claimants in dire straits.
The present system has many flaws, and I'm of the opinion that change isn't necessarily always for the worse.
For many it couldn't get much worse.
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Yes I agree that their are many who are defrauding the system and have been watching the programme you mention. When Ian was awarded DLA they didn't just accept his word for what was wrong, he had to see somebody at the doctors. You will always get people who think it is ok to defraud the system and tightening things up should help.
But why take DLA and AA off genuine claimants??