Charles Amos: Calling out phony benefits claimants is not mean spirited but a service to taxpayers

Charles Amos: Calling out phony benefits claimants is not mean spirited but a service to taxpayers

Britain needs a national benefits register so the public can snitch on phony benefit claimants. The fact one in ten people of working age now claim incapacity or disability benefit shows the joke that is the welfare state today. At a cost of £48.3bn a year, income taxpayers are shelling out about £1,290 each to support these two benefits alone. Sure, many people have serious problems which you can argue warrant help from the state, but millions …