Labour's reluctance to get tough with criminal wrongdoing is yet again confirmed by the truly shocking figures released last week indicating social security fraud currently amounting to £4 billion a year.
The failure to recover a further £1 million in known overpayments provides more evidence of the calamitous present operation of the social security benefit system.
If we had ministers with the courage and willpower to deal with this scandal, the proceeds of this £5 billion robbery could be used to fund a better deal for pensioners, who have been treated in such a despicably miserly way by the present government.
-Douglas Gibson, Arundel Road, Brighton
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