Sheffield Council welcomes you to commit benefit fraud

[Douglas J]

Capita are fined heavily if they dont achieve X amount of claims processed, hence services to the elderly, area offices, fraud are all being cut to avoid the fines.

 

A large amount of these claims are from Eastern Europeans settling in Sheffield, this is where SCC see's the priority, as every pound paid out in Council Tax benefit is a pound classed as collected in Council tax bills, SCC has to collect something like 99% Council tax, so the more benefit it pays out the less it has to collect. So when it comes to April it looks as though its achieved its target collection rate

 

i hope that makes sense:)

 

Makes sense apart from "A large amount of these claims are from Eastern Europeans " are you absolutely sure about this??