interview under caution

daytona998

hi everyone,i am reciving carers allowance for looking after my wife.i looked up on google to see if i can work? it says yes up to £90 a week.well the work i do is 3 hours a week and it is at a convent school.i am geting housing benifit and council tax benift.i honestly never thought about telling them about the work as i just saw yes i can work on carers allowance.i finished at the school just before a letter came in december about suspending the housing and tax benefit. i told them about the work and they said that they would have to re do my tax and housing benefit. now it is all back to normal i have got a letter to atend a interview under cation this week.im so down and i just want to take my own life.i have never done anything wrong in my life.im scared that i will go to prison.i would prefer to take my life than go there.

Triker

Hey, hang on, lets not get in such a state, there's nothing here that can't be fixed. Honestly please don't talk about committing suicide, that's not the answer.

Scooby_Doo.

You won't go to prison for that.

Triker

Thread here that others posted in similar circumstances, many of the answers can answer your queries, provide advice and also relieve your worries.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3163466

Triker

I think this needs moving to the Benefits Thread really though, more people can advise there who may be experienced in this situation.

NASA_2

When you made your claim you agreed to tell them anything that may affect your claim to benefit, you didnt, and that is why they have called you in.

The worst they will do is raise an overpayment against you but if the amount earned was less than the limit then they might not even do that.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Isn't an interview under such circumstances pretty much a 'now you do understand that you need to tell us anything next time and we will decide if it's relevant, don't you?'.

They don't send people who deliberately con thousands upon thousands to prison, so it's not going to happen for a couple of hours a week keeping an eye on the dinner queues or reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar.


Put the thoughts of hurting yourself out of your mind. It's not going to happen. Your OH can't have you do that to yourself; that would be the greater crime, to leave her without your care.

Spartacus_Mills

daytona998 wrote: »

hi everyone,i am reciving carers allowance for looking after my wife.i looked up on google to see if i can work? it says yes up to £90 a week.well the work i do is 3 hours a week and it is at a convent school.i am geting housing benifit and council tax benift.i honestly never thought about telling them about the work as i just saw yes i can work on carers allowance.i finished at the school just before a letter came in december about suspending the housing and tax benefit. i told them about the work and they said that they would have to re do my tax and housing benefit. now it is all back to normal i have got a letter to atend a interview under cation this week.im so down and i just want to take my own life.i have never done anything wrong in my life.im scared that i will go to prison.i would prefer to take my life than go there.

!!!!!! you have not committed the Great Train Robbery, please dismiss any thoughts about prison and suicide. It will not come to that.

Take advice as to whether or not to attend the interview under caution.

Personally I would not go for the simple reason if they had firm evidence they would be at your door. I reckon they are looking for you to incriminate yourself.

I personally would not go.

McKneff

Spartacus_Mills wrote: »

!!!!!! you have not committed the Great Train Robbery, please dismiss any thoughts about prison and suicide. It will not come to that.

Take advice as to whether or not to attend the interview under caution.

Personally I would not go for the simple reason if they had firm evidence they would be at your door. I reckon they are looking for you to incriminate yourself.

I personally would not go.

This has got to be the worst ever advice in the history of MSE.

Words fail me.

ormus

you have to kill someone like mrs d cameron to goto prison these days.
stop worrying.

vaio

McKneff wrote: »

This has got to be the worst ever advice in the history of MSE.

Words fail me.

I'm not sure that advising someone to get specialist advice before voluntarily taking action that might well lead to self incrimination can ever be regarded as a bad idea.

As Spartacus_Mills says, it might be fishing expedition (or not) and they might be looking for self incrimination (or not) and going (or not) might be the right thing to do (or not)

A specialist who knows the law, procedures and full circumstances will be able to advise the best course of action for the OP (one thing I can guarantee is that it won't involve suicide and I'd bet my house on it not involving prison either)