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Old 15-07-2017, 05:55   #419
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Re: Worrying news for ESA claimants converting from DLA to PIP.

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Yes benefit fraud is wrong, but its no worse than things like tax evasion. Both things are defrauding the government of money. Yet tax evasion I suggest is far more widespread, how common is it e.g. for someone self employed to not declare cash income?
Absolutely and no one on this forum would say otherwise.

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Yes benefit fraud is wrong, but its no worse than things like tax evasion. Both things are defrauding the government of money. Yet tax evasion I suggest is far more widespread, how common is it e.g. for someone self employed to not declare cash income?
Pretty much l would say and yet some of the same people who go on about benefit fraud are defrauding the system themselves...

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The tories e.g. managed to find several billion to keep the DUP happy (1 billion funding for NI + cost of keeping pension triple lock). The money is always there, the problem is the will for it to be spent
That magic money tree again which the Tories claim is non existent.
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