A special commission in the northern German city of Braunschweig will investigate over 300 cases of fraud committed by asylum applicants, who gamed the welfare system by using multiple IDs to claim benefits – and that may just be the tip of the iceberg.
The estimated total loss of taxpayer money in the state of Lower Saxony alone has been put at three to five million euros ($3.2-5.3 million), Regional German broadcaster NDR reported.
In the majority of cases, the scheme was employed by Sudanese refugees who were applying for benefits within the social welfare system, the head of the newly established investigative commission, Joern Memenga, said, as cited by Deutsche Welle.
The scammers allegedly took advantage of the extreme workload the civil servants who were registering the applications were under in the summer of 2015, at the peak of the European migrant crisis.l
“At that point, we wanted to avoid one thing – homelessness,” Memenga said, adding that in some cases the same employees had registered more than one alias per applicant…
In one of the most extreme cases uncovered so far, one man was able to bamboozle the state to the tune of tens of thousands of euros using twelve fake identities.
“Our crassest case has twelve alias-personalities. Damage: 45,000 euros, at least,” Memenga said, as cited by NRP.
If you are an r-strategists, you expect free resources.
To us, applying for twelve welfare accounts, and getting $100,000 per year dropping in our accounts would be odd, and that violation of expectation would make the moral transgression feel worse. We would be breaking moral rules to create an unnatural circumstance.
But if we were r-strategists, the world is supposed to have free resources. We aren’t doing anything immoral to get an unfair advantage. Rather, we are just bending a rule to make the world the way it was supposed to be from the beginning.
[…] Migrants Are r-strategists – Welfare Scams […]
Living off of the enemy government is exactly what Maoist guerilla insurgency teaches.
In other news:
Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ becomes German bestseller
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hitlers-mein-kampf-becomes-german-bestseller-publisher-112022916.html
Everything old becomes new again. We are heading to another global war, and like last time, elites screwing over the peasants is a theme riling things up.
Off-topic, but look how much effort is needed to protect one small elephant from predators:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU3JZSEq2yg
I’m thinking one adult elephant would be not enough to chase the dogs away.
Interesting to think about as a selective pressure.
Here’s a link to an article you might find interesting:
Hard-wired: The brain’s circuitry for political belief
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161223115757.htm
THanks