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report someone for benefit fraud ??

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  • Weary_soul
    Weary_soul Posts: 272 Forumite
    Yes it does matter. It seems that so many out there seem to have the magic ability to have intimate access to others claims, without actually knowing them at all.

    Medical issues are complex, and having idiots going around and making assumptions about issues they have no real knowledge just sickens me.
  • princessdon
    princessdon Posts: 6,902 Forumite
    Weary_soul wrote: »
    Yes it does matter. It seems that so many out there seem to have the magic ability to have intimate access to others claims, without actually knowing them at all.

    Medical issues are complex, and having idiots going around and making assumptions about issues they have no real knowledge just sickens me.

    So someone whose form indicates they cannot walk 20m yet walks 2 miles daily at a brisk pace should be left alone?
  • Weary_soul wrote: »
    Yes it does matter. It seems that so many out there seem to have the magic ability to have intimate access to others claims, without actually knowing them at all.

    Medical issues are complex, and having idiots going around and making assumptions about issues they have no real knowledge just sickens me.
    1. It sickens me that having worked so hard I was able, when offered, to retire from career job at 55 and now do voluntary work and the odd bit of freelance (albeit it meant I couldn't achieve all my life aims) while a neighbour, who has worked for about 2 years in last 40 wheels in his 46 inch TV over his new wooden floor and sits in his new settee BUT only when the pub is closed. That sickens me.:mad:
    2. If a claimant is 100% honest then they have no worry about investigations do they ??
  • MissMoneypenny
    MissMoneypenny Posts: 5,324 Forumite
    On threads like this I'd say 3/4 normally tell you not to report, mind your own business etc.

    They are the ones who are committing benefit fraud.

    I reported another benefit thief this morning and I don't feel bad about it. It's the thieves who make it harder for the genuine people.
    RENTING? Have you checked to see that your landlord has permission from their mortgage lender to rent the property? If not, you could be thrown out with very little notice.
    Read the sticky on the House Buying, Renting & Selling board.


  • MissMoneypenny
    MissMoneypenny Posts: 5,324 Forumite
    I was thinking of recording her at this sports day and sending it in.

    Do it. That's what relatives did at a wedding to a guy who was always dancing at weddings but he painted a different picture to claim DLA.

    I was a witness to an assault, where a foul mouth man flew out of one of those little, low 2 man tents to punch the owner of the camping site. He was very quick on his feet. When the case went to court, he staggerd in on two sticks and said he couldn't have done what all the witnesses said he did as he had been on full benefits for years because he could hardly walk and was in severe pain.:eek:
    RENTING? Have you checked to see that your landlord has permission from their mortgage lender to rent the property? If not, you could be thrown out with very little notice.
    Read the sticky on the House Buying, Renting & Selling board.


  • Weary_soul
    Weary_soul Posts: 272 Forumite
    They are the ones who are committing benefit fraud.

    I reported another benefit thief this morning and I don't feel bad about it. It's the thieves who make it harder for the genuine people.

    Oh I know. How those MP's still manage get away with it is anybodys guess.
  • princessdon
    princessdon Posts: 6,902 Forumite
    Weary_soul wrote: »
    Oh I know. How those MP's still manage get away with it is anybodys guess.

    Any MP who claims benefits should be reported, do you have a benefit thief in mind and we can all report their ileagal benefit claims.
  • Weary_soul
    Weary_soul Posts: 272 Forumite
    They claim loads of benefits as MP's. Second homes funded by the general public being just part of the problem.

    And as to their overblown salaries of which they want a 7% raise...ha!

    Utter leaches the whole lot of them.
  • princessdon
    princessdon Posts: 6,902 Forumite
    Weary_soul wrote: »
    They claim loads of benefits as MP's. Second homes funded by the general public being just part of the problem.

    And as to their overblown salaries of which they want a 7% raise...ha!

    Utter leaches the whole lot of them.

    So irrelevant as you are talking about expenses not benefits?
  • Weary_soul
    Weary_soul Posts: 272 Forumite
    Not irrelevant as It all comes out of the public purse. We support these over privileged, self serving sods.
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