Councillor Alan Law, Executive Member for Finance at West Berkshire Council, complained about the low fines meted out to benefits cheats by local magistrates on the local radio this morning..
An I a cynic for wondering whether he was trying to distract attention from yesterday's criticism of West Berkshire Council by England's Chief inspector of Schools? The inspector criticised the council for the poor GCSE results achieved by pupils receiving free school meals.
Councillor Law also said that the £1M in defrauded housing and council tax benefits could otherwise have "filled all the potholes twice over". This is nonsense. These benefits are government funded benefits that are administered by the council. The £1M would have been money saved by the government, not by the council, if it had not been claimed fraudulently.
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