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Perceived fraud in the benefits system
Very interesting and topical article by Ben Baumberg, a Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent, on perceptions of fraud within the benefits system.
Secondly, people seem to considerably over-estimate the share of false claims among benefit claimants…
So for people on average to think that 30-40% of claims are false is a massive, massive over-estimate – far more than could be explained by the difficulty in getting good estimates of fraud rates.
Third, despite this over-estimate of false claims, most people think that most claimants are genuine.