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LILLEY'S LITTLE LIST: Rip van Winkle (clear case for Fraud Board); Old woman who lived in a shoe (feckless lone parent - offsetting childcare costs against benefit could be incentive to work); Sleeping Beauty (malingerer: test for Incapacity Benefit); Father Christmas (check on undeclared income for other 364 days); Hansel and Gretel (latch-key kids, truants: job for Patten); Snow White and Seven Dwarfs (fractured family: is SW cohabiting? Test Sneezy, Dopey and Sleepy; and why is Happy so bleeding cheerful?)

BUT GOLD STARS FOR: Dick Whittington (went looking for work); Jack and Jill (self-help in adversity); Aladdin (showed initiative)

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