Cash for snitching on benefit cheats

GingerSte

What share of the saving is it? What happens if more than one person snitches on a particular cheat? Can one person snitch on more than one cheat and increase his income?

(Assuming 10% of the saving) can a group of 11 cheats get together and agree to snitch on each other, and each get 10 x 10% of the saving? They'd end up with the same income as before (only legitimately now)!

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Says the Government who just broke the law 495,000 times over

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/feb/09/labour-broke-rules-phone-calls

dave4545454

"No 10 is said to be attracted to the idea as symbolic of a tough contract on fairness in which Labour offers support for those genuinely in need on the condition that they play by the rules."

that's comedy gold coming from the place where there is the most benefit fraud, the MP's

1984ReturnsForReal_2

dave4545454 wrote: »

"No 10 is said to be attracted to the idea as symbolic of a tough contract on fairness in which Labour offers support for those genuinely in need on the condition that they play by the rules."

that's comedy gold coming from the place where there is the most benefit fraud, the MP's

A decade of stealing in fact.

wageslave

ln1234 wrote: »

I for one agree with this as someone claiming benefit they aren't entitled to is pure and simple fraud.

Why would someone waste their time on unfounded accusations if they'll only get a share of the resulting savings?

StevieJ wrote: »

Because they don't like someone, elementary

StevieJ, your idea of elementary logic is pretty unique.

If you decide to report someone for benefit fraud because you don't like them, the reward you wont get anyway doesn't really factor into it.

Happychappy

A great idea as I regularly pass on details

But now if I get paid for this public duty? is this declarable income to be taxed at 40%, or will someone ring up about my extra earnings ; )

StevieJ

wageslave wrote: »

StevieJ, your idea of elementary logic is pretty unique.

If you decide to report someone for benefit fraud because you don't like them, the reward you wont get anyway doesn't really factor into it.

I thought they wrote wont get a share, now I don't understand their post.

carolt

I think it'a great idea.

The problem is that on the rare occasions they do catch these people, you read in the paper that so-and-so was caught and made to return as much of the x thousand pounds they nicked as they have left.

They never appear to get jailed, or fined on top of that or in fact any meaningful move to stop them doing it again.

Being asked politely to please return it if they haven't spent it all on high living is not really my idea of a deterrant. :mad:

wageslave

carolt wrote: »

I think it'a great idea.

The problem is that on the rare occasions they do catch these people, you read in the paper that so-and-so was caught and made to return as much of the x thousand pounds they nicked as they have left.

They never appear to get jailed, or fined on top of that or in fact any meaningful move to stop them doing it again.

Being asked politely to please return it if they haven't spent it all on high living is not really my idea of a deterrant. :mad:

I have a friend who is a benefit cheat. Lives with a bloke and claims as a single parent. She has been doing it for years. I reckon she must be tens of thousands of pounds up.

I could report her, I should report her. It is a bit too much like snitching at school for my taste.

I don't agree with what she is doing and I make it very clear to her how much I disapprove.

It is easy to take the moral high ground with strangers but impossible to pick up the phone and report someone you have known forever. Well for me anyway.

A monetary reward wouldn't change that.

carolt

I don't know anyone in that position.

If it was someone I knew vaguely, I suspect I'd do it anyway, just because I was so cross.

Would the offer of cash make me more likely to do it? Yes, probably - it might make me put it higher up my 'to do' list.