In other words, *all* of the anti-fraud in the benefits system is devoted to catching benefits cheating - a phenomenon that is so rare as to be almost nonexistent (1.54%), notwithstanding right wingers' fevered, Reagan-era folktales about "welfare queens":
https://blog.gitnux.com/food-stamp-fraud-statistics/
Meanwhile, the most widespread and costly form of fraud in the benefits system - fraud perpetrated *against* benefits recipients - is blithely ignored.
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