Treasury gives up on chasing £4.3bn of public cash stolen by Covid fraudsters – Labour branded the revelations ‘outrageous’ as it emerged £1 in every £4 taken by scammers would likely never be recovered
Treasury gives up on chasing £4.3bn of public cash stolen by Covid fraudsters – Labour branded the revelations ‘outrageous’ as it emerged £1 in every £4 taken by scammers would likely never be recovered
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But they go after benefit fraud with gusto,which is a much lower figure 🤔
> I “We will not be able to recover it all,” he told the Financial Times. “You will reach a point of diminishing returns in terms of good use of resources.
So not worth trying to recover £4.3Bn pocket money then. Talking about fiscal prudence. I wonder if I wrote a nice letter asking just few million from that magic money tree, shouldn’t be a problem to get it, should it? Just some loose change.
It’s not like there are traceable payments to accounts or anything ???
Meanwhile Missus Miggins who was overpaid 20p in benefits has been sanctioned for the rest of her natural life and her appeal is scheduled for 2040.
The Tories are not pursuing these fraudsters because they’re Tory chums.
Wonder how many of those fraudsters are Tory donors…
It seems everyone is benefiting from COVID apart from the public & the NHS!
What’s the betting half of the fraudsters were Tories anyway…