tax credit stress!!!

totallybroke_2

seriously cant believe how much my tax credits have gone down this year! i thought the government wanted to make it better for mums to go to work?? i would be so much better off if i pretended to be a single working mother...........whats the odds on me getting caught lol

Darlyd

I hear ya.

briggy

Unfortunatley I'm not pretending. I really am a single working mum (thanks to my husband of 12yrs leaving me when I was three months pregnant) and my tax credits have dropped as well.

totallybroke_2

it sucks, money sucks, the government sucks. all the people who are carrying out benefit fraud suck!! i mean i know so many people who are doing it, they dont work and go shopping and on holidays all the time. im working and can just about afford food

Darlyd

totallybroke wrote: »

it sucks, money sucks, the government sucks. all the people who are carrying out benefit fraud suck!! i mean i know so many people who are doing it, they dont work and go shopping and on holidays all the time. im working and can just about afford food

I hear ya .

Not being funny but I reported someone who was committing that. Really got my goat up, she was claiming as being single and in one job, but reality was she was accepting cash in hand from her ex for their son (£60 week), Cash in hand job (£120+ week) AND her new partner lived with her who was in full time work!

She was constantly at the beauty salon, and constantly being tangoed. Going on and on about her latest holiday she booked abroad, designer clothes, furnished her house with next, right snobby moo!!

I shopped her, and then found out another friend of ours did the same. Took a year but she was caught, cautioned and sorry, very sorry. She never had to pay anything back though :question:.

happy_lass

totallybroke wrote: »

seriously cant believe how much my tax credits have gone down this year! i thought the government wanted to make it better for mums to go to work?? i would be so much better off if i pretended to be a single working mother...........whats the odds on me getting caught lol

high i would imagine !! life is s hit at times. I never have any spare money. but what i do have is earnt and legit. i would rather be poor and happy !! :beer:

nannytone_2

darlyd wrote: »

I hear ya .

Not being funny but I reported someone who was committing that. Really got my goat up, she was claiming as being single and in one job, but reality was she was accepting cash in hand from her ex for their son (£60 week), Cash in hand job (£120+ week) AND her new partner lived with her who was in full time work!

She was constantly at the beauty salon, and constantly being tangoed. Going on and on about her latest holiday she booked abroad, designer clothes, furnished her house with next, right snobby moo!!

I shopped her, and then found out another friend of ours did the same. Took a year but she was caught, cautioned and sorry, very sorry. She never had to pay anything back though :question:.[/QUOTE
she wasnt breaking any rules for accepting 'cash in hand' from her ex, as maintenance is totally disregarded when it comes to benefit.

Darlyd

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she wasnt breaking any rules for accepting 'cash in hand' from her ex, as maintenance is totally disregarded when it comes to benefit.[/QUOTE]

At the time that was not the case.