“SOMEONE, somewhere could be reporting you now,” reads a stern poster aimed at targeting benefit thieves by the Department for Work and Pensions. The National Audit Office decided to do just that when it dobbed in the department last month, reports Public Finance (Jan 25). Fraud? Of course not. But the DWP does spend £1.50 for every £1 of benefit fraud it identifies. And it gets worse. From six antifraud programmes costing £154 million to run in 2006-07 only £106 million of fraudulent payouts was identified, and only £22 million was actually recovered. Criminal.