Employees of Britain's largest claims management company get £4million in compensation:

The much publicised sacking of over 2,500 staff members via text message was the first indication to the public that The Accident Group was not all it was cracked up to be. Along with the thousands of victims who lost money in unpaid compensation claims, the tax payer is now being asked by the TUC to pay £8million in redundancy payments to the TAG staff as they were not given sufficient notice. TUC spokesman Gary Neilson announced:

"The DTI (Department of Trade and Industry) have a responsibility to pay redundancy packages to workers who have been unfairly dismissed without the required one month's notice. They have offered £4million for the 1,300 staff that are claiming through us but we feel it should be double that."

Naturally people are outraged due to the news stories now being published about The Accident Group's staff themselves who have been accused of falsifying claim documents, lying to clients and simply making up false claims for their relatives and friends to get compensation from. An ex-partner of one of TAG's staff spoke to us:

"Reni (her partner at the time and employee of TAG) told me that he had filed a claim in my name, without even asking me, against our local council and that we would get £10,000 no questions asked. He was wrong. The council fought the case and I was fined £3,210 by the courts. Reni just legged it when he found out but still came crying to me when he got fired. Those people ruined everyone's lives and cost this country millions, why on earth are they getting government compensation?"

A sentiment that is shared by most of The Accident Group's ex-clients that we spoke with but not, it seems, by government officials. One insider did speak to us though asked to remain nameless:

"They (her bosses) want to portray the workers at TAG as blameless. It makes them look bad if there were 2,500 people scamming the government successfully! Blaming just 10-15 people like the company's directors makes them look less incompetent."

Many have pointed out that the £8million the TUC is asking for is almost the exact amount that TAG's directors took in dividends just before the company collapsed. A BBC columnist stated:

"The money the staff are due is in the pockets of the directors. Why leave it there and take the £8million out of ours?"

It seems that TAG's slogan of "where there's blame, there's a claim" doesn't apply to TAG's directors.