IT IS staggering to think that Oxford is topping tables for the amount of fraud detected.

Almost £1.28m was defrauded in the city in the financial year spanning 2013 and 2014.

The 970 cases detected makes one wonder just how many aren’t being detected.

Maybe the new fraud hub, which will involve all the district councils covering the county, will result in more money being saved.

What this would mean, hopefully, is more money to go to the people who really do need our welfare system.

That people who are struggling, in whatever situation, are given a leg-up is a great thing about this country.

However, so often benefits claimants are branded with the wrong title of being “scroungers” or even fraudsters.

Of the 22,000 people claiming in Oxford, it has still been a very small percentage of the total that have fraudulently claimed.