wrongly claiming benefits: my dilema

floss2

PM me the details and I will report them for you.

At the end of the day, it's my tax, and my husband's and every other tax payer's contributions that appear to be paying for their lifestyle of deceit.

pearl123

Interesting name you've got OP.
Yes.. I'd report them - they are thieves.

Abbafan1972

sunflower wrote: »

i actually knew a childminder who did this for a while.


she was generally lazy and didnt want to take on any more kids, even though she could have an extra baby/toddler if she wanted to.

in her own words she "sold the space to a neighbour on benefits". the neighbour split the benefits she got 50/50.

the childminder was very pleased with her cleverness.:mad:

needless to say we are no longer associated in any way.

I hope that you reported her?

tea_lover

Report them. You may be able to afford to subsidise this (although from the sounds of it you can't) but I certainly can't.

Little_Monkey_2

In my opinion you have a personal decision to make... are you able to continue being friends with parties who knowingly claim benefits illegally. or not. I personally find people who claim when don't need to, abhorrent... Very similar to the politicians who claimed expenses (even though they were eligible, but still on £70k plus) this economy could do with less spongers and more honest hard working individuals like you.

If it was me, I would report them, tell them that what they are doing is wrong on sooo many levels.

thehappybutterfly

There are some people who claim for every little thing they can get. We have an ongoing discussion in our office about expense claims. There is one particular lady in our office who claims back every cup of coffee on the train when travelling between our different offices, she's even tried claiming for her lunch! It's an ordinary working day - why would we pay for her lunch? The irony is she's loaded! I'm certainly not and wouldn't dream of claiming for a cup of coffee on the train. I chose to have a coffee - it wasn't compulsory! Some people eh?!

FBaby

I think some of it could be proven quite easily.

I assume the deal with the childminder is something like this: the fraudster claims £1000 a month childcare costs and gets £700 paid back. She offers £350 to the chilminder. However, I would bet that say childminder doesn't declare the £1000 a month on her tax returns OR in her tax credits applications, hence most likely getting almost the same full income she would get looking after a child full-time.

In the end, there will be many factors that will decide whether these people are charged or not. It might take surveillance a long time before they are happy to charge them, maybe resources are such that they won't act on it, but we can only hope that they would most likely show an interest in it and do something about it. On this basis, they should definitely be reported, the lot of them...

suejb2

J.D.I. They have lost their moral compass, report them all.

Tropez

thehappybutterfly wrote: »

There are some people who claim for every little thing they can get. We have an ongoing discussion in our office about expense claims. There is one particular lady in our office who claims back every cup of coffee on the train when travelling between our different offices, she's even tried claiming for her lunch! It's an ordinary working day - why would we pay for her lunch? The irony is she's loaded! I'm certainly not and wouldn't dream of claiming for a cup of coffee on the train. I chose to have a coffee - it wasn't compulsory! Some people eh?!

The thing is though if you're entitled to it then you might as well claim it. HMRC permits subsistence expense claims within reasons and rules and the employee manual should detail the company policy on expense claims, so if everything tallies then why not claim?

thehappybutterfly

Tropez wrote: »

The thing is though if you're entitled to it then you might as well claim it. HMRC permits subsistence expense claims within reasons and rules and the employee manual should detail the company policy on expense claims, so if everything tallies then why not claim?

Just because you're entitled doesn't mean you have to.