Let every politician and bureaucrat involved in this live without any money or benefits for the rest of their (hopefully short) lives, I say. Oh wait, right, we don’t punish systemic violence against poor people and the cruelty is the point. My bad. I guess it’s just an unchangeable fact of life that this stuff has to happen to keep capitalism going. Nothing. At all. Could change that.

I guess it’s just not easy to make it harder for fraudulent claims without throwing up more and more obstacles for genuine claimants. It’s especially problematic when dealing with health benefits, as genuine claimants tend to have less energy and drive for filling out applications and attending assessments than fraudsters who are in good health. Fraudulent claims is a real problem and something does have to be done - there have been cases where gangs have been siphoning off tons of money by creating claims on an industrial scale.