Social benefits fraud

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100119/local/social-benefits-fraud

The government has suspended 861 cases of social benefits because of fraud during the first nine months of last year.
Answering a parliamentary question by Alfred Sant (PL), Social Policy Minister John Dalli said that in the process the government saved €3,134,439. For the whole of 2008, the government suspended benefits in 960 cases and saved €2,491,502 while the previous year, the suspended cases totalled 982 and the government saved €3,482,410.