Is The Benefit System Too Easy?

It has been heavily debated whether the benefit system is secure enough to stop benefit scrounges getting in. It seems like all you have to nowadays is pop out a baby and your simultaneously placed at the top of the housing and benefit list. According to the Direct Gov website  you qualify for benefits if you're

"•on a low income (employed or looking for work)


•have dependent children


•ill or disabled


•caring for someone


•aged 60 or over


•bereaved


•pregnant or have recently had a baby"

The situation has gotten so bad its being considered a norm, a culture! The question I need the answer to is; 


How do we stop it?

World Record: 500 people living in a one bedroom flat

Benefit fraudsters have made a staggering £1 million pounds by claiming that 100 people lived in their 3 bedroom ex-council flat in, you guessed  it, Peckham.


Interestingly, Criminals used the personal details of people who had stopped claiming unemployment benefits to trick workers into handing over the cash.Two crooked Department for Work and Pensions workers are thought to have handed them information used in the scam.

The Nigerian Akinmayone Aiyeloa, who co-owns the flat, was questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud over £20,000. Neighbors of the first-floor flat, purchased from Southwark Council for £67,000 in 2004, have said that just four people live in the flat.


It has been worked out that benefit fraud and errors by the Department for Work and Pensions cost the taxpayer a massive £5.2billion per year.

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Do you think the government are doing enough to prevent fraudster’s committing fraud?

Surprisingly the newspaper I got this article from mentions the origins of the fraudsters, do you think ethnicity has anything to do with an individuals likelihood to commit crime?