Where’s the list of the ten worst benefit administration blunders?

We have had in the media the list of the ten worst excuses given by benefit fraudsters. To be fair, the ladder one is particularly fine… yet when you total up the sums, the amount lost in benefit fraud is about the same or less than the amount lost due to administrative mistakes*.

I’m sure the list of the ten worst administrative blunders by civil servants is in the media grid coming up shortly, aren’t you?

Unless someone just wants to exaggerate the scale of benefit fraud, that is…

* Calculations on this vary depending on precise definitions and data used, but see The FactCheck Blog for an example.