Benefit cheats could lose driving licences in anti-fraud drive

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• NateNate60@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Why not a community order?

  This is such a strange punishment which is completely unconnected with the offence in question.

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• Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s a weird punishment.

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  • thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It will be counterproductive in a lot of cases, if the ultimate goal is to get people back into work.

    There’s a lot of areas of the country unfortunately where not being able to drive makes it very hard or near impossible to find work. It could also affect any of the sanctioned person’s dependents in a similar way.

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    • ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Never mind a lot, it’s most of the country.

      Unless you live in a large city you’re basically screwed without a car. The public transport here is atrocious.

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• Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Cruel and unusual punishment from a Labour government. Great.

  Interesting that £1k of benefits cheating will give the government carte blanche to look through your bank accounts but fraud and tax avoidance by the richest in society and HMRC can’t do a thing. Funny how that works…

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  • deadcatbounce@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Since very recently they can look through your bank accounts if you just receive any government payments, including stare pensions.

    Meanwhile freebies all the way for the front bench. And no-one is expecting anything for it, would you believe. 🤬

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• Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  UBI to all.

  The real cheaters are the billionaires.

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• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I suppose that could be an effective punishment.

  A monetary fine may mean little to a benefits scammer, and prison is obviously a silly punishment, particularly when prisons are in the shambolic and overcrowded state they’re in now.

  When you drive, it’s a big part of your life (or maybe that’s just my perspective, living in rural Northumberland where my “public transport” is a twice-weekly shuttle-bus to Hexham), the threat of that being taken away would be a pretty huge deterrent in my view.

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• rayquetzalcoatl@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Benefit cheats like multi-millionaires who exploit loopholes and avoid paying their fare share?

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• deadcatbounce@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yes. Make sure that they can go to work by removing their ability to drive, as well as the criminal sentence, and jail time.

  Another dumb idea by yet another corrupt government.

  Everyone knows how desperate this government is to throw the disabled under the bus. So I have little confidence that those labelled frauds are actually did anything wrong.

  I’m old and it wasn’t always like this. Or at least it wasn’t so open.

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