***help fraud interview with jobcentre tomorrow!! Jail? Please help???***

Fran

You need proper advice.

CLS or Citizens Advice.

You also need to get a proper diagnosis of any mental health issues.

bestpud

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

You seem to have managed to do that on here as well, when you've asked for benefits advice previously!

I was thinking that! Nothing like pushing it to the limit is there!

QUEENY-V

bestpud wrote: »

Those comments were made based on your original information so there is no point getting shirty with the response.

I'm dubious about all this but, if you did do it for the legal aid, you are surely guilty of fraud for that too?

Yes probably. rock (me) hard place xx

toktok

So you not only knowingly took money that wasn't your's to take, you also claimed legal aid using false information.

I hope that on behalf of every tax paying person in this country, they throw the book at you.

bestpud

Are you able to get to a CAB this afternoon OP?

Fran

From your previous threads you have a complicated situation which is all the more reason to get advice urgently.

Calvinandhobbs

OP - I agree with many other people, just tell the truth, you had no right to the money and it is disgusting you took it.

Merlinexcalibur

As others have said, stop making up stories and admit what you have done. Your previous posts show your attitude towards money. You need to start taking responsibility for your actions, before the legal system takes all your rights away from you.

I agree entirely with that. The whole lot, actually. Just reading your posts here I am more than dubious you are telling the truth, as everyone else has picked up on.

BTW, it is fairly obvious you've not a clue when it comes to things like bi-polar and the process gone through to get that diagnosis. You don't just go to a GP, get signed off shall we say!

I am going to put this to you: has this whole thing been a fabrication?

Incidentally, if you lie to the DWP ... they will know straight off, because I have seen through most of what you have said here and I've only read a few posts.

As the ones that you have at the moment are laughable.

I'm sure you do want to "pay the money back" now that you've been caught - as a prison term as the alternative isn't looking too rosy is it?

You didn't just forget. That's just insulting people's intelligence. If you try and fob people off with that lie, then people are going to just see you as a liar as well as a fraud.

Couldn't agree more. That all may sound harsh but your own words betray your own intentions. It's a pity they don't send people to prison for what you describe. Because not only have you made a joke out of people who do suffer with depression but also further joke about going to prison. You don't go to prison for benefit fraid FAIK. However, you are likely to face a court. I hope so, because of how you present your 'facts'. If there were any to begin with.

As to apparently seeing a mental health team ... erm, okay. Were there qualifications obtained off the back of a Corn Flakes packet?? If you have depression then you have it, if you don't you don't. Simple. Please don't make posts when you already know people who use MSE suffer with this and they SUFFER very badly with it and then make some fun/mockery out of it. And I would also strongly argue that that, in itself, is a sign of a 'condition' as you may feel the need to do it anyway. The 'compulsion'. I've been a student of the 'humanities' for a long time now and how people behave and some just are 'compelled' to do this. Maybe you need to look into that more than anything before it gets out of hand. Just a suggestion.

And I have just posted totally out of character but I am seeing more of this on MSE than I care to. All this guff as posted in this thread which seems just to be to belittle people who do suffer with these conditions and make light of it.

Unless you have an official diagnosis & a cpn who can be present at the interview, pleading mental illness won't help you at all.

No, it certainly won't. And I hope they chuck the book at you for even trying to use that as an excuse for your actions. I can well imagine what their reaction would be to that. Is there even the tiniest of truth in anything you've posted? :rolleyes:

dmg24

Pee wrote: »

It is extremely unlikely that you would get jail. I'm sorry I didn't see this thread sooner. Let us know how it goes. You will be forced to pay the money back, but as for jail, unless this is a serial offence, not a chance. You are a mother. The courts don't like imprisoning mothers. Plus if everyone who commited benefit fraud was jailed, the prisons would be fuller than they are already.

I agree, unless she continues to lie. As much as the courts do not like imprisoning mothers (or anyone IMO), if someone deliberately obstructs the investigation, a custodial sentence would be considered, and has been passed on first offences (albeit usually where it is clear that past offences have been committed but not prosecuted).

nexuss

This is the most common benefit fraud at the moment according to the government and this is why they have stepped up with prosecutions in the current climate.The Govt will obviously ask her to pay back a few years income support.