Insurance and Social welfare fraud is a crime

It might be a obvious thing to say but:

Insurance claims and social welfare fraud is a crime, not a victimless one either.

Social welfare and insurance fraud costs the country hundreds of millions of Euro every year. That means increased taxes and increased premium for all of us. Hopefully the days of the 'cute hoor' society is over, we can ill afford to continue paying the way of those who look to take advantage of the systems in place that are there to support people in times of hardship.

To this end you will find below links for Insurance Confidential (run by the Irish Insurance Federation) and contact details for the department of social welfare. Reporting potential fraud is every ones responsibility, and you can can do so anonymously if you choose.

Stories like this show how grand a scale some of this fraud is. Joan Burton, Minister for social protection is making plenty of positive noises of a crackdown by her department in the coming months and years, long overdue some would say.

http://www.insuranceconfidential.ie/
http://www.welfare.ie/en/contactus/Pages/reportfraud.aspx

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