Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Cyners........

No it wont but it will show the Government of the day is taking a Moral Stance.

And anybody who doesnt like it eg, Michael Caine can FO.

Theirs always a new face around the corner.

Anyway TANKERS point was that benefits and wages should be used to pay arrears but like you say its not such an easy option. eg, you cant get an attachment order if your

self-employed
unemployed
in the army, airforce or navy
in the merchant navy.

Even then after this you have to get a CCJ and for example costs at the Small Claims Court have doubled this year.

What really pees me off is the Tories stance on 1 parent families.

Not the wife and children but the husband or boyfreind.

As per usual IDS has ignored chasing these scoundrels as per normal Tory policy and it adds up to Billions over the years.

you know why dont you??????because a big % on what they call the STUD LIST at the DSS are coppers ex coppers or members of the forces or ex members of the forces.

Not a Dicky Bird have we heard from IDS over the last 4 years and they are the biggest benefit cheats catogery.

43695 - not sure what point you're trying to make

however, it is a sad state that potential father (or otherwise!) cannot insist on a DNA test to clarify paternity - the mother has to agree to it

What im saying is millions is paid out to 1 parent familys each year and the Government have no interest in chasing the fathers up to recoup these benefits.

Now that should make sense. capiche

ps, the Tories are supposed to be the party of Law and order.

In that this reshuffle seems an attempt to prop up a failed tory party and prepare it for an election I would like to know who is paying some of the elite, especially those without portfolios.

Is Cameron using the hard working tax payers taxes to employ them for party political purposes.

This stinks and is lowering of government to a banana corrupt cabal.

It stinks.

.

Fred...........

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Cameron now has 10 people 'attending Cabinet' who aren't members of the Cabinet. Is this what he meant by the Big Society? #reshuffle

15 July 2014 Last updated at 15:15

Asylum seeker benefits fraud 'not being tackled'

The Home Office has come under fire for failing to stop asylum seekers fraudulently claiming benefits.

In a scathing report, Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration John Vine said there was "no evidence" of an effective strategy to fight fraud in the £155m asylum support system.

He said insufficient resources also meant that opportunities to find and deter those planning fraud were lost.

The Home Office has insisted work has already begun to improve these areas.

It said its efforts would help streamline the asylum process across the country.

The Home Office also accepted 11 recommendations made in the report and pledged to implement them.

'Far too low'
People applying for asylum in the UK are entitled to housing and financial support of at least £36 a week. Those whose asylum claims have been refused are also eligible for short-term benefits.

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Opportunities to identify and deter those wishing to commit fraud were lost”

John Vine
Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
In total, almost 27,000 people received support last year.

However, the report found that only six people were successfully prosecuted in the UK in 2012/13 for fraud offences in this area and that only £5,673 was recovered.

Mr Vine said these figures were "far too low".

"I found no evidence that the Home Office had an effective strategy to identify and tackle fraud in the asylum support system," he said.

"Work had not been undertaken to determine what its exposure to fraud risk was.

"No attempt had been made to ensure that fraud and compliance teams operated in a consistent manner and there were insufficient resources dedicated to this work.

"This meant that opportunities to identify and deter those wishing to commit fraud were lost."

The report said the Home Office's UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) failed to follow its own policy of reviewing support cases to determine whether recipients were still eligible.

More than half had not been reviewed regularly, it found.

The report also said the UKVI failed to establish "an effective counter-fraud regime" and had not determined the "scale and nature" of risks posed by fraud.

'Haphazard'
Resource management was therefore "haphazard" and regional teams worked autonomously without any central guidance.

The report said this led to them failing to operate in a consistent manner, setting their own performance targets and not being suitably trained to do investigative work.

In a statement, the Home Office said it was "committed to providing accommodation and support to those who would otherwise be destitute while claims are considered".

"UKVI's security objective is to detect and deter threats and identify, protect and support victims as part of a zero tolerance approach to immigration abuse," it said.

It added that it was pleased with the positive findings in the report, which included remarks that staff working at an asylum screening unit were "committed to safeguarding vulnerable individuals and made a concerted effort to ensure that those requiring immediate access to the support system were given priority".

Yunker Yunker shove it up yer jumper.

Hard luck Dave.

Dave wobbles from mistakes to u-turns and celebrates with them with a catastrophe!

No wonder the back-benchers are getting drunk to-night.

If there was a vote between Farage and Cameron I think I would go for the Joker.

His own actions have led to his own and party's the catastrophe, suffocated by their own propaganda and lies.

He allowed the likes of IDS, Fox, Osborne and Gove to dominate policies and he is stuffed.

GF,

If the ID cards had not been cancelled by this rabble then many of false claims and tax avoidance or evasion could have been clamped down on it.

It probably could have helped to prevent illegal immigrants. (Has Dave had his passport checked. 8-) )

It could have been the basis of controlling money laundering through the city.

Don't be daft Fred, they'd have been dishing out free id cards to all and sundry.

MAx

You mean confetti in the cabinet!

(Engage the grey matter.)


However,

I have just been informed by a Baroness Something, or other, that we are going to see a more of tory women in public life and on the TV.

Being of a nervous disposition, if that means they are going to take their clothes off, I hope that it is not so.

I dunno Fred, I thought you fancied Esther.

sticky - i can tell you CSA is downright vicious so not sure that your accusation is correct

Juncker jeered over euro as he urges huge spending package - € 300bn!!!!

now where have we seen the attempt to borrow hugely and then try to spend the way out of recession before, though with much smaller numbers?

anyone remember the consequence?

The CSA s not controlled by any particular government. That have been pretty weak regarding chasing absent fathers for years.

really? ..... i certainly know of one case where they were downright spiteful

of course, it does require the mother to lodge a claim with CSA which, de facto, means divulging the name of the alleged father, which may well be something of which she is uncertain

i also believe that even having had CSA on their backs, the father still has few if any rights

They'll chase the ones they can find...not easy with the usual suspects.

The hapless joe with a steady job is the number one target...easy pickings.