Driving bans for benefit cheats

A new proposed law would disqualify benefit claimants who have not repaid what they wrongly stole.

This is just political posturing. How can taking someone’s driving licence help them get into work, so they can repay their debts?

I cannot see the legislation in any event surviving a human rights challenge while we remain subject to the ridiculous European ECHR yoke.

The solution is to use the Proceeds of Crime powers to make them pay back and have prison as a deterrent if they do not. Only prison works.

February 2025

Rodney Hylton-Potts