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Excellent point. Some people/media/politicians are so terrified that someone might get money they're not entitled to, that they design paranoid systems that are
by mcv 5y ago
Excellent point. Some people/media/politicians are so terrified that someone might get money they're not entitled to, that they design paranoid systems that are likely to deny people money that they are entitled to.
Netherland recently had the long-running scandal of the "toeslagenaffaire", where the tax service had a tendency to assume people from foreign ethnicity or double nationality might be committing fraud, and gave them additional checks and hoops to jump through, leading to a lot of people to be treated as criminals and have to pay back money that they did have every right to. Was incredibly poorly handled, government fell over the scandal, but the new government consists of exactly the same parties, with the same PM, and I have no faith at all that this won't happen again.