10/08/2010
David Cameron says benefit fraud costs taxpayers more than five billion a year. He's asking you to report suspected cheats. How would you do it?
Rachel Burden asks, how do you catch benefits cheats?
Michael in Leeds says there's a growing culture where whole generations of people don't think it's wrong to cheat on benefits.
Jeff in Sevenoaks is a landlord who's lost thousands of pounds to benefits cheats because they use different names on different passports.
Adrian in Salford has been caught cheating the system, but claims it was only because he forgot to tell the council that he'd found a job and didn't need benefits any more.
Joan in Glasgow is disabled and feels that people who genuinely need benefits are going to be targeted unnecessarily.
Gary from London is a fraud investigator - he says it is very difficult to target benefit fraudsters when their own resources to investigate them are being cut.
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