benifit fraud

subway98

Deleted_User wrote: »

Unsure what year you were working but you would have to be earning over £22 per hour to attract minimal NI... If they are taking your house under proceeds of crime act then you must have been earning substantially more. Also if you own ur house there would be no housing benefit. If this is genuine perhaps you could tell is more about the types of benefits you claimed and over what period?
When I worked in recruitment the only guy I knew who got sent to prison for benefit fraud got done for £80'000!!!! he laughed and told me he snapped their hand off at that as he knew he had claimed more!!!![/QUOTE

Your right there, Fis usually only send people who have comitted high amounts of Fraud, or 3 strikes. Usually with people who have illness's, they get suspended and made to pay DWP back. Would help if OP put which benefits they were on- Could help

real1314

kt102 wrote: »

i was paid monthly and i was sent to prison for 4 months i served 5 weeks and the rest on a tag
but thank you for your input

Just so people can confirm, which court dealt with the case, and which newspapers reported the sentencing? Every case of this type gets reported somewhere, even if it's just a local paper. :cool:

incorrect_2

If the op is telling the truth and did commit benefit fraud and did get sent to prison then what else do they expect when others who are genuinely ill and cant work are worried sick about losing their benefits sorry but I have no sympathy

rolymo_2

kt102 wrote: »

can anyone help
i have been done for benefit fraud i worked for 5 hours a week but didnt tell the dwp has i was paying tax and insurence anyway i pleaded guilty and was sent to prison for 4 months now they want to take my house off me im due back in court on thursday the solicitor iv had have been useless this is the first time iv been in trouble and feel iv been made an example of i have been ill for over 10 years i need new hips n knees i suffer with arthritus and im diebetic and iv also got cancer when i was released from prison my wife told me she had cancer too shes been treated for that but the stress of having to go back to court for poca and been told by my solicitor that they will take our home is just living hell we arnt kids weve worked and my wife still works 8 hours a week and we find that we could be homeless any help please

not being funny mate, but if you have all those medical problems, why do you feel the need to work for 5 hrs a week ???

jason1231972

Whilst I smell a huge troll, it's not just the money earned for '5 hours per week' work that could have landed the OP behind bars.

They could have been claiming top-whack DLA for many years whilst working (working on DLA is fine in most instances, not fine if, for example, you've claimed to have been bed-bound, but have worked as a roofer). Or they could have been on incapacity benefit but worked in an incompatible job, and so on.

If the OP has admitted to long-term sickness and/or disability benefit fraud, they could have been sentenced on the basis of a tens of thousands of pounds loss to the public purse.

However, he's still a troll!

Thomas_The_Tank_Top

kt102, you used the wrong name. See if you can get it changed to "Walt".

kt102

it was over a 6 year period i earned 17 thou but was charged over an 8 year has they said i wasnt entitaled to it has id been working it was for ib and no i wasnt a roofer i was working with in an office it was over payment of 42 thou but with interest its now 55 thou and yes i did go to prison and yes it was in the local and national papers
i was told to work has the joints would seize up has they are doing now but now im also a diebetic and got cancer i was claiming ib and dla high rate mobility

jason1231972

kt102 wrote: »

it was over a 6 year period i earned 17 thou but was charged over an 8 year has they said i wasnt entitaled to it has id been working it was for ib and no i wasnt a roofer i was working with in an office it was over payment of 42 thou but with interest its now 55 thou and yes i did go to prison and yes it was in the local and national papers
i was told to work has the joints would seize up has they are doing now but now im also a diebetic and got cancer i was claiming ib and dla high rate mobility

When did you get done? A quick search for disability fraud and four months' imprisonment throws up the name Mr Shah. You??

dealer_wins

kt102 wrote: »

it was over a 6 year period i earned 17 thou but was charged over an 8 year has they said i wasnt entitaled to it has id been working it was for ib and no i wasnt a roofer i was working with in an office it was over payment of 42 thou but with interest its now 55 thou and yes i did go to prison and yes it was in the local and national papers
i was told to work has the joints would seize up has they are doing now but now im also a diebetic and got cancer i was claiming ib and dla high rate mobility

What about your major heart problems and quadruple bypass? And your 15 children with nothing to eat and no nappies!!

marisco_2

Tony69 wrote: »

Anybody else read the OP without taking a breath?

Nope. I took a big sigh about two sentences in and thought blah, blah, blah another troll.