Friday, March 16, 2012

Benefits Census

From today's papers....
Between 30,000 and 40,000 of the estimated 240,000 recipients of welfare benefits have failed to register in a census carried out at Citizen Service Centres (KEP). The deadline, which expires today, was not met either because these individuals did not appear at all, or because they lacked the necessary supporting documentation, the health ministry revealed. The same sources noted that of the 700 people drawing a disability benefit for blindness on the island of Zakynthos, only 100 appeared before health inspection committees, of which 60 were discovered not to be blind after all.

I wonder how many of them have spent the last couple of years blaming the corrupt government officials and politicians for the present plight of Greece.