People may support this, but it’s the Totalitarian Tiptoe to taking money from YOUR account

 The DWP will be granted new powers to lift money directly out of the pockets of benefit fraudsters, as the government vows to crackdown on welfare scams.

Work and Pensions Secretary, Liz Kendall, has vowed to update her department’s 20-year-old powers branding their current investigatory capacities as ‘absurd’.

She said her inspectors we’re struggling to ‘keep pace’ with fraudsters duping the state, the Telegraph reports.

In the biggest shake-up in the DWP for over two decades, benefit fraud investigators will soon be able to recover debts of those who have overclaimed – directly from their bank accounts,

Officials have previously blamed an ‘increasing propensity’ for deceit across British society for the continued increase of scams since the pandemic....<<<Read More>>>...