Benefit fraud prosecutions fall

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Knowing someone who works in that area I can say that you don't get prosecutions if you don't investigate.

Yes, I do too.

This was interesting though:

"Its getting harder to engage in benefit fraud, anyway because of the increasing sophistication of tools that can be used to match data"

With databases from most government departments being interlinked the opportunity to dodge detection of criminal records, tenancy misbehaviours, bad debts, non-payment of tax, relationship responsibilities, vehicle ownership, rebellious social media behaviour and many other factors of relevance is much reduced. Welcome to the era of 'big brother'.