[JackdawX]

> The anti abuse/fraud work alone…

There is no concept of benefit fraud in a BI system. Everyone by default qualifies for the same level of BI. Your government paycheck starts at the max value and can only go down from there, which happens when you are paying back that money in the form of tax. The only type of fraud detection needed would be the tax fraud system that already exists.

I'm not saying everything about BI would work (although I hope it does), but the fact that you could cut benefit overhead is self evident I think.

[akvadrako]

Of course there can be fraud - what if you use multiple identities?

[JackdawX]

Well, that is already tax fraud correct? Someone already has to check for that. The savings come from all the additional checks you would no longer need to do to see if people are really disabled, what their marital situation is, where they live, etc.

[throwaway7767]

> Of course there can be fraud - what if you use multiple identities?

Either those people are living and will notice not getting their money, or they are dead and there is a problem with enforcement.

Any kind of BI seems contingent on an accurate census. At least in Finland, I believe their census is quite good. Fraud should be very minimal.

[6t6t6]

In most of European countries, people has an ID card and SS number, and there is a centralized database controlled by the state. A single person cannot have 2 different IDs. At least, it is not something trivial to do.