Yes, that's right Greatnan.
I maintain that benefit fraud, when counted over the country as a whole, is very low. In some areas it is probably high, and in other areas hardly there at all.
As for dishonesty - misleading information in the press is the worst kind of dishonesty, because it affects everyone who reads it.
Many years ago I worked for Social Security and some of us were drafted to a mining area during a miners' strike, to pay benefits to strikers' families (not for the men themselves). I knew exactly what the miners earned, as I saw a miner's batch of payslips every 10 minutes, but a popular tabloid printed banner headlines quoting their pay as one and a half times that amount. I went to their union leader and asked what was going on. he said "Look on page 6 or thereabouts tomorrow, and you'll see a correction". Sure enough, almost needing a magnifying glass, and knowing it was there, I eventually found the retraction. The general public would never have found it, and the right wing press would never tell the truth. The miners were thus vilified dishonestly.
This really affected me, because I was there, at the front of the issue and could not do a thing about it.
So what lies are being told in the press today? Most of us have only one defense - utter cynicism.