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Article: YOUR NUMBER'S UP!; Why DNA testing can beat the welfare cheats; by Labour MP FRANK FIELD.(Features)
- Article from:
- Sunday Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 28, 1996
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I suggested last week the need to introduce DNA testing to safeguard the National Insurance number system.
These numbers are allocated to everyone at the age of 16 - and are the gateway to claiming benefit payments.
But when I suggested DNA tests for everyone, all hell broke out.
Accusations abounded that such a move was, at best, an introduction of the big brother state, and, at worst, a new form of Nazism.
What was interesting was that all these comments were addressed to a reform I was not advocating.
I had not suggested the ...