"PROSECUTIONS for benefit fraud in the UK are on the increase."

Yes and it's hardly surprising, given that this immoral and uncaring government is taking away the vital support that so many of the most vulnerable people in our society need to exist. Indeed, it could be argued that, when the rich are encouraged and applauded for using every method of making themselves richer, and the gap between rich and poor is increasing exponentially, people are morally justified in taking what they need and the state is wrong to prevent them

Here's what one of the greatest writers of the 19th century, Oscar Wilde, who was a libertarian socialist/anarchist, has to say on the matter in his excellent essay 'The Soul of Man under Socialism':

"We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity.    Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontent, disobedient and rebellious. They are quite right to be so……Why should they be grateful for the crumbs that fall from a rich man's table? …..to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. Man should not be ready to show that he can live like a badly-fed animal. He should decline to live like that, and should either steal or go on the rates, which is considered a form of stealing. As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg. No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented, and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him."