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However, we should bear it in mind that operational reasons are important reasons, too, particularly given how desirable it is, as I said before, to make automated payments for winter heating assistance.
What would you consider to be a substantial increase? Ach—I am not going to be pinned down on a number. I think that we can all work out what a ballpark figure for a substantial increase would look like.
Although it is right and proper to have effective monitoring of public funding, the process should be more streamlined, automated and proportionate. The fourth section covers finance and distribution of funding.
All those things can affect eligibility, which is why real-time information automation and trying to use digital capabilities to spot outliers against the mean are techniques that are used in really advanced fraud and error systems.
If so, does there need to be more focus on increasing the productive capacity of the existing population, because the economy will require working-age people to be more productive, whether by means of skills or automation? Does public policy need to be more focused on that issue?