In the Nordic countries, people often know personally someone who has managed to live on the dole for years and years in spite of being totally able-bodied and capable of working; the person would simply prefer to spend their lives playing video games or toking or whatever. That is rather unfair and that person might be called a leech, but still few would want to rock the boat and end the welfare state just to eliminate those cases. So, indeed, in the Nordic countries people are prepared to accept some fraud and mismanagement to keep the overall system going.
I have to agree here, having family on welfare in the U.S. Try living like that sometime, its terrible. You will have to live in a terrible neighborhood, with not enough money to survive on without resorting to taking handouts from charities like foodbanks. If someone wants to scam the system and live like that their entire lives let them, if that means that people using it to get back on their feet have a safety net.
