Petition Protection from Identity Theft

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There are rougly 3 million unemployed. Of these, only 2 million are receiving benefit. That leaves roughly 1 million who are unemployed and not receiving benefit. This million are potential targets for identity thieves, who can sign on using their details.

I suggest that it becomes possible for an unemployed person, who does not want to claim benefit, to be able to register as unemployed but not claiming, so as to close this window of opportunity for fraudsters.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

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Date closed 16 January 2013
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