{"id":51957,"date":"2015-10-06T16:15:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T16:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_bishop_david_walker-system_to_catch_benefit_cheaters_isnt_having_desir\/"},"modified":"2015-10-06T16:15:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T16:15:52","slug":"bbc_bishop_david_walker-system_to_catch_benefit_cheaters_isnt_having_desir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51957","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Bishop David Walker&#8211;system to catch benefit cheaters isn&#39;t having desired effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benefit cheats should be allowed to get away with fraud to stop innocent people being punished with sanctions and late payments, a leading bishop has said.<br \/>\nThe Rt Rev David Walker criticised the &#8220;Kafkaesque&#8221; workings of the welfare system which he said produced too many wrongly imposed sanctions and delays.<br \/>\nThe Bishop of Manchester made the remarks at a Conservative Party conference fringe event in the city.<br \/>\nHe claimed innocent people are trapped in the drive to catch fraudsters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-manchester-34449325\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benefit cheats should be allowed to get away with fraud to stop innocent people being punished with sanctions and late payments, a leading bishop has said. The Rt Rev David Walker criticised the &#8220;Kafkaesque&#8221; workings of the welfare system which<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51957\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,50,74,389,635,199,168,114,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}