Benefit cheats could lose driving licences in anti-fraud drive

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• NateNate60@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Why not a community order?

  This is such a strange punishment which is completely unconnected with the offence in question.

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• Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s a weird punishment.

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  • thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It will be counterproductive in a lot of cases, if the ultimate goal is to get people back into work.

    There’s a lot of areas of the country unfortunately where not being able to drive makes it very hard or near impossible to find work. It could also affect any of the sanctioned person’s dependents in a similar way.

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• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I suppose that could be an effective punishment.

  A monetary fine may mean little to a benefits scammer, and prison is obviously a silly punishment, particularly when prisons are in the shambolic and overcrowded state they’re in now.

  When you drive, it’s a big part of your life (or maybe that’s just my perspective, living in rural Northumberland where my “public transport” is a twice-weekly shuttle-bus to Hexham), the threat of that being taken away would be a pretty huge deterrent in my view.

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