It is really bad the way they do this, and having seen the threatening letters they send out they could be very frightening. The letters were on the lines of "Our detectors have found that you have a TV and you have to pay the license fee or we'll send bailiffs around, take you to court etc", and the one I received once (when i too didn't have a TV) was printed on red paper.
And that person to be paid and hired as a civil servant, in a completely unionized job with a pension fund?
If that's not the definition of a job program and how the welfare state has gone wrong I don't know what is.
I assume, of course, that the burden of proving you don't have a TV falls on the citizen and not these government-paid contractors.