Sentence examples for benefit theft from inspiring English sources

With such massive government losses to white-collar criminality dwarfing the "benefit theft" figure you would expect that the intensity of deterrence campaigns would be heavily weighted towards tax theft rather than benefit theft.

According to the DWP, the government lost around £900m in "benefit theft" in 2005, but HM Revenue and Customs HMRCC), when asked how much the government was missing out in terms of lost revenue from tax evasion, said that "it is not possible to quantify a negative figure".

If government were to treat tax theft in the same way as it targets benefit theft, it would aggressively target the City of London, the first-class lounges of international airports and the leafy neighbourhoods of Kensington with posters, TV ads and veiled threats.

The government has upped the rhetorical ante with this campaign, rechristening benefit fraud as "benefit theft" and expanding the emphasis from undeclared work to encompass activities and omissions ranging from failing to inform the state that your partner is now living with you, or that you have moved house, or that a relative has died, leaving you some money.

He believes Social Security has some means to preventing benefit theft.

Solis and Ridley-Thomas cited a 2014 UCLA Labor Center report that found 655,000 low-wage workers in the county experience at least one wage or benefit theft violation in a typical week.

Imagine the Social Security system's having to handle tens of millions of benefit thefts.

President Obama should warn President Xi that continued Chinese economic cyber-espionage could result in more punitive policies, including possible sanctions against firms that benefit from theft, and broader restrictions on access to the US market.

It is important to appreciate that adopting this approach to truth-making doesn't have the benefits of theft over honest toil.

However, if benefit fraud is "theft", then so is tax evasion.

The kind of crimes that victims are being forced to commit include begging, ATM theft, benefit fraud and cannabis cultivation.