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Recorded interview under caution help!!!

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  • feelinggood_2
    feelinggood_2 Posts: 11,115 Forumite
    How/why did he become your carer?
    Stay-at-home, attached Mummy to a 23lb 10oz, 11 month old baby boy.
  • Kath13
    Kath13 Posts: 37 Forumite
    edited 6 January 2010 at 5:08PM
    Thanks for all your replies.....Im not going into why someone becamed my carer....or why an ex squaddie was living in a room with no proof he was living there (ever thought that people have personal problems beyond the red tape)......I intend to tell the truth,...thanks again

    and relooking at the letters its a joint investigation from IS and HB, if I have read it correctly my husband really doesnt have to go to be interviewed..as its questions regarding me...as long as I go I think thats all that matters.
  • Oldernotwiser
    Oldernotwiser Posts: 37,425 Forumite
    Kath13 wrote: »
    Thanks for all your replies.....Im not going into why someone becamed my carer....or why an ex squaddie was living in a room with no proof he was living there (ever thought that people have personal problems beyond the red tape)......I intend to tell the truth,...thanks again

    Well, you'd better be prepared to explain it in the interview because they're going to ask very similar questions! When you claim public money, much of your personal life becomes public property, whether you like it or not.
  • Kath13
    Kath13 Posts: 37 Forumite
    Of course, I know that!...but i'm not dragging up medical and personal situations here!...just so they can be scrutinised and pyscho analyzed.
    Well, you'd better be prepared to explain it in the interview because they're going to ask very similar questions! When you claim public money, much of your personal life becomes public property, whether you like it or not.
  • System
    System Posts: 178,376 Community Admin
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    Kath13 wrote: »
    If you read the thread you'll see my mother helps me....where is this point leading?
    I was trying to suggest to sunnyone why someone on LRC might need help!
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  • aj2703
    aj2703 Posts: 876 Forumite
    Well, you'd better be prepared to explain it in the interview because they're going to ask very similar questions! When you claim public money, much of your personal life becomes public property, whether you like it or not.

    What tosh.

    lmao.... You make it sound as if you have a right to know about it.... You have no right.
  • JimmyTheWig
    JimmyTheWig Posts: 12,199 Forumite
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    Could he at least get credible neighbours from the other addresses to confirm that they'd seen him going in and out 4-5 times a week?
    Would the postman / milkman / binmen recognise him?
    Did either of you keep a diary that mentions him living elsewhere?
    Or emails, e.g. "Do you want to stay at mine tonight?" / "Looking forward to you moving in next week"?
    Or your phone bills, even, with regular calls to the addresses in question that start and stop when he moved there and left there?

    I don't know how much weight any of this would carry, but any evidence has got to be better than no evidence.

    Above all, in the interview be honest. Get your facts sorted. Get your dates sorted. Get your figures sorted.
  • aj2703
    aj2703 Posts: 876 Forumite
    Kath13 wrote: »
    Of course, I know that!...but i'm not dragging up medical and personal situations here!...just so they can be scrutinised and pyscho analyzed.


    Ignore the comments by this one Kath. ....
  • sunnyone
    sunnyone Posts: 4,716 Forumite
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    Kath13 wrote: »
    Thanks for all your replies.....Im not going into why someone becamed my carer....or why an ex squaddie was living in a room with no proof he was living there (ever thought that people have personal problems beyond the red tape)......I intend to tell the truth,...thanks again

    and relooking at the letters its a joint investigation from IS and HB, if I have read it correctly my husband really doesnt have to go to be interviewed..as its questions regarding me...as long as I go I think thats all that matters.

    Being an ex-squaddie has nothing at all to do with benefit fraud and you will have to explain it all in the interview, personal problems and all.
  • aj2703
    aj2703 Posts: 876 Forumite
    sunnyone wrote: »
    Being an ex-squaddie has nothing at all to do with benefit fraud and you will have to explain it all in the interview, personal problems and all.

    I think she meant as in explain it to us. I think she is fully aware she would have to explain it at interview should it be raised.
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