Really, it's worse than that. In deciding to protect the welfare *system* rather than welfare *recipients*, we've made it vastly harder for benefits claimants who've been victimized by fraudsters to remain fed and sheltered. After all, if we made it simple and straightforward for benefits recipients to re-claim money that was stolen from them, we'd make it that much easier to defraud the system.
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