Possible Benefit Fraud

dippy3103

Lioness_Twinkletoes wrote: »

Which leads me to think there is more to that story than is being shared.

Well it surprises me. Very much.

slenderkitten

well i know about this because i know the neighbour that recently moved in, they had asked other neighbours about them like anyone would do to establish what is going on. The neighbour has reported these people and the housing officer has visited, most neighbours know the tenent as he has lived there for about 20 years, but like myself didn't know there was a woman living there. from what the neighbour told me the owner of her flat may have known something about the situation but chose to do nothing and hope that someone would move in for a cheap rent but is having to move out as they are losing days at work because of them.

Morglin

I worked at the DWP for years, and you were not allowed to suspend benefits without evidence or admission.

Anon reports were treated as a bit suss, a lot of the time.

If a person didn't turn up for interview, though, payments could be withheld until they came in.

Must be more to this, or the DWP have not followed their own rules.

Lin

mojos.revenge

slenderkitten wrote: »

I just hope he will end up in court for it, and i hope they properly investigate her.

Has this man done anything to upset you by any chance, as you seemed pretty determined on getting him exposed. How do you know he is being investigated, the DWP are not going to make that common knowledge.

dippy3103

Morglin wrote: »

I worked at the DWP for years, and you were not allowed to suspend benefits without evidence or admission.

Anon reports were treated as a bit suss, a lot of the time.

If a person didn't turn up for interview, though, payments could be withheld until they came in.

Must be more to this, or the DWP have not followed their own rules.

Lin

That's exactly the situation now. Anon reports do initiate investigations but benefit certainly is never suspended without so e evidence. Unless someone doesn't respond to letters, then it can be.

BillJones

meg72 wrote: »

Sorry but that was not my experience, my Son was on sickness benefit when some spiteful person wrongly informed that he was working, His benefit WAS immediately suspended and it took them

Public spirited, or honest would be better descriptions than "spiteful". As you presumably know, too, it takes more than an unfounded allegation to have benefits stopped, suggesting that the suspicion was reasonable.

What's the actual story here?

Parva

Housing_Benefit_Officer wrote: »

I would say 45% of working Housing Benefit claimants are being overpaid and 20% underpaid because of failure to declare changes of circumstances such as changing jobs, wages increasing and changes in household circumstances etc. About 5 to 10% of benefit claimants never bother to return their review forms or have a change of circumstances such as a partner moving in or wages increasing the week they receive the review form and ask for their claim being cancelled.

That is some claim! I'll be very interested to see what the real world makes of this.

dktreesea

Not sure about DWP managed benefits, but I thought with housing benefit, it gets suspended as soon as someone reports someone else is claiming it fraudulently? Our local council do this while the alleged fraud is being investagated and say it is to prevent any overpayment.

dippy3103

dktreesea wrote: »

Not sure about DWP managed benefits, but I thought with housing benefit, it gets suspended as soon as someone reports someone else is claiming it fraudulently? Our local council do this while the alleged fraud is being investagated and say it is to prevent any overpayment.

That surprises me greatly. I investigate Fraud and am currently employed by a council. I have not come across the routine suspension of claims just because of an anon allegation.

datlex

I'm puzzled how is she living there if she is seen leaving at night? I noticed no comment on her being seen arriving.....


I live on my own but my OH often comes round spends the evening then leaves anything up to 2am. At most he is here for 6 hours though most of time it is only a couple of hours. Living someone where suggests staying most nights for the whole night.