Rejected petition stop benefit fraud

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Why don't we pay benefits in a different form of currency that can only be used for essentials (food, normal clothes, rent etc.. ) and not Alcohol cigarettes drugs cars and designer gear after all it is our money that they are given and I choose not to buy things that are luxury for them.
This will also stop the benefit fraud as the money would be no good for anything else.
This petitioncould save our country billions of pounds.

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Date submitted 18 August 2011
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