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Please note - the £50 fine can apply to any "avoidable error". Well, as a matter of logic any error can be avoided - but benefit claimants are probably less likely to be Vulcans and so more likely to error. And I am quite sure that the benefit Gestapo will take a different view of what is "avoidable" from that taken by the ordinary, and even more different from the less able.

This is a disgusting piece of bullying. It will discourage those entitled to benefits from taking them up, and unclaimed benefits already exceed incorrectly claimed benefits by a large margin.

But more, incorrectly claimed benefits are a drop in the ocean beside tax avoidance and evasion. Do we see an equivalent attack on "avoidable errors" made by the rich? No? Well there's a surprise, isn't there?