Benefit cheat next door moaning cos she got caught

Lyndsay_21

I'm really annoyed, the girl who lives in the flat next to me got caught with her boyfriend living with her (he has been for 1yr+) and she was claiming IS and he was earning £200+ a week. She keeps moaning how she will have to get a job now cos they cant afford to live on his wages blah blah blah yet the day after the fraud people came to see her she bought a new sofa on credit that she has to pay off £160 a month!!!

MarkyMarkD

I wouldn't be annoyed! Good riddance to her.

IvanOpinion

Well done the government ... another sponger that may be forced to get off their lazy butt. I just wish they would make her pay back every penny she fraudulently claimed.

Ivan

Spendless

IvanOpinion wrote:

I just wish they would make her pay back every penny she fraudulently claimed.

Ivan

I thought they did???

divadee

Glad she got caught. This is one thing that really winds me up :mad:

magoogy

surely she does have to pay back the money - i was overpaid and had to pay it back weekly, so surely someone who has dont it intentianally has to pay it back....i hate people like this - i wish i had £200 a week to live on - itd be lovely - bet she smokes and drinks like i dont know what - they have up to date mobiles, all the latest designer gear/trainers - makes you sick dont it.........


theres one near me who keeps drink driving - he goes to the pub nearly every night after work, parks his van in the pub car park - stays for a few hours and then drives home - i know someone has reported him, but, there is no sign of him being nicked or owt for it............low life!!!!!!!

Scout

I have to admit that I 'bubbled up' a friend of mine for benefit/tax fraud. This was only a week or so ago so nothing's happened yet. I felt really guilty but this is the simplified story:

Friend has 2 kids, 6 and 4. Younger has mild/moderate autism, elder has behavioural problems (entirely due to diet/lack of discipline etc) but she's managed to get him diagnosed with aspergers. Due to this, she has:

disabled parking badge (Nothing wrong with child's ability to walk!)
Uses wheelchair type buggy (makes parking badge look good)
Disabled bay outside house
Gets carers and mid level DLA - trying for highest level DLA
Trying to get DLA for elder child
Trying to get Elder child statemented so can move him to special school - gets free taxi to and from school then.
Got charity to pay for new car seat/repairs etc to house
Gets lots of tax credit etc.
Got hubby's firm to reduce his salary so she can keep top benefits (he gets lots of cash in hand/TOIL to make up difference)
She works cash in hand at local pub - £300 + per month
She runs these evening parties selling stuff - declares some of this.

All in all we reckon they are bringing in £2-3K per month! She's fleeced a charity cos they could have given to a real deserving family. She spends her day time now, 'doing lunch', having beauty treatments. She also brags about all this. Oh, she also feeds her kids coke/smarties/monster munch 30 mins before they see the doctors so they are off their heads and thinks this is OK.

My other friends and I are on much reduced incomes, but are honest and try to do the best for ourr kids, helping with any special needs, not hindering. They don't know I've contacted the benefits office about this - we keep saying to each other that one day she will get her come-uppance. Hopefully one day soon.

Sorry it's a bit off topic and long-winded - just had to get it off my chest. Hope she doesn't use this site ...

moggins

It's nice for some isn't it? My son does have Aspergers, unfortunately because of his behaviour we didn't mix with other people at all so no one knew him well enough to countersign the DLA application form.

Now we have worked so hard with him helping him understand the way the world works and what behaviour is expected from him that no one who meets him believes he has AS at all.

We just can't win

chinagirl

I know what ya mean. My eldest, (now 16) has moderate ADHD. Right from nursery the teacher called us in and said there was something different about him, and sure enough, each and every teacher he had said was at wits end to deal with him in class, fortunately, he is never violent or aggressive towards anyone, he just cannot sit still, cannot concentrate on anything, gets lost moving from classroom to toilet, latches onto the teacher and bombards with questions, comments( rarely relevant to current lesson). However, each teacher has just been pleased when the next school year comes round and he goes into another class. Doctors were no help at all, suggested changing diet, but food has no adverse or beneficial effect on behaviour at all. My husband and I wonder how we managed to go on to produce 2 other children, it must have happened on the rare nights son stayed over at grandparents to give us a break, as he has never slept through the night. Indeed, we go bed long before he settles down. Our other children almost appear backward or slow as they are "normal", and in a way it is a good thing we had them after, as we appreciate them more.
I would not swap or change my eldest for the world, as he is highly intelligent, great company and capable of great things. I have always believed that we as his parents are the best people to shape his life, not psycologists and doctors, who only want to pump his full of drugs, and I am now glad we did not continue to get him statemented, as was suggested to us more than once. ( he could reduce a stressed teacher to tears quite innocently).

Miroslav

People like that annoy me. Especially when those who have claimed fairly, they investigate cos they can't get anything right, yet the real cons take ages to find.

*mad*

magoogy

good on you scout - she deserved reporting - but, more than likely she will weed her way out of it.....i honestly cannot understand how people get stuff free....my hubby is disabled and can hardly walk (not at all without crutches) - he cannot bend and simple things like dressing himself i have to do for him - but, looking at him you cannot really tell how ill he is - you have to live with him 24/7 to realise this....my point being - i can get nothing!!! we only get low mobility, etc for him - he needs to be 95% disabled before you get middle/high....i have appealed and better appealed - no joy!!!

MY MAIN THING THOUGH IS; we need outside lights, because he is stuck indoors mainly at night - we have 6 steps down to our door and cannot see at night - i have bought some outdoor lights, but, dont know anyone to fix them up for me - i thought occupational therapy would do it, but, no joy there - so, how the hell do people get stuff? our faces obviously dont fit....i cannot afford to pay a professional, so they are stuck in the cupboard and hubby doesnt go out at night.....