Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

‘A little bit extra’

The weird world of the middle-class benefits cheats

issue 03 March 2012

A very chic lady turned to me at a dinner party recently and in tremulous tones confided that she was being investigated for benefit fraud.

‘Infernal cheek,’ I said. ‘How typical that our chaotic benefits system should make such a stupid mistake. Instead of going after the layabouts, some idiot pen-pusher has put two and two together and made nine.

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