Would you report someone for benefit fraud?

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Yes.

HBS x

emceeassassin

Viberduo wrote: »

Its tough depending on the situation i.e someone just wants as much money as possible to live a good life or someone who is struggling

Well they always say don't be a grass but it would appear there are a lot of people doing this nowadays and we are the ones who are paying for it. That said Viperduo has a point !!

FluffyDuck3

going_nowhere_fast wrote: »

If you knew they were a two parent family but claiming to be a single parent so they get enough benefits not to work?

Is there anyway that the person can find out it is you that reported them?

So they're living together but he is registered as living at a different address?

SailorSam

Not exactly the same but i was on jury duty, some years ago now and one of the cases was an old man for benefit fraud, he'd not declared a private pension of about £10pw. I said not guilty but he was.
This old man didn't have two pennies to rub together, he still lived in the same rented terrace house he was born in, he never had a car, he didn't even have a phone, his life was going to the local for a pint. So he wasn't one of these benefit fraudsters living the life of riley, he believed his small private pension was private . I felt sorry for him.
I tried to compare his fiddling with others who got away with it 'cos he was an easy touch to be caught.
I drove a Cab at the time and one of my fares was our MP taking him to the train going back to London for what he needed a receipt. But he didn't want one receipt he asked for several, and he wanted them left blank ...... (i can't imagine why). I refused, i'd only give him a receipt for the fare, so he told our taxi office not to send me again he wanted one of the other drivers.
Ok the old man may have claimed to much benefit, he was wrong doing so but i compared him to people like the highly paid MP who wanted more.

trollopscarletwoman

Squeak society.

warehouse

It always amazes me how people who are cheating the system have no problem telling others and boasting about it, hence leading to them being reported.

I'm glad they're so boastful.

tomtontom

SailorSam wrote: »

Not exactly the same but i was on jury duty, some years ago now and one of the cases was an old man for benefit fraud, he'd not declared a private pension of about £10pw. I said not guilty but he was.
This old man didn't have two pennies to rub together, he still lion the basved in the same rented terrace house he was born in, he never had a car, he didn't even have a phone, his life was going to the local for a pint. So he wasn't one of these benefit fraudsters living the life of riley, he believed his small private pension was private . I felt sorry for him.
I tried to compare his fiddling with others who got away with it 'cos he was an easy touch to be caught.
I drove a Cab at the time and one of my fares was our MP taking him to the train going back to London for what he needed a receipt. But he didn't want one receipt he asked for several, and he wanted them left blank ...... (i can't imagine why). I refused, i'd only give him a receipt for the fare, so he told our taxi office not to send me again he wanted one of the other drivers.
Ok the old man may have claimed to much benefit, he was wrong doing so but i compared him to people like the highly paid MP who wanted more.

You seem to have misunderstood your role as a juror. You were there to decide if he was guilty on the facts of the case, which you acknowledge he was. It was then the role of the judge to consider the severity of the case and any mitigation. Perhaps best to get yourself excused from future service and leave it to people who can follow simple instructions?

SailorSam

warehouse wrote: »

It always amazes me how people who are cheating the system have no problem telling others and boasting about it, hence leading to them being reported.

I'm glad they're so boastful.

If it were me fiddling benefits i'd be exactly the same as if i got 6 numbers in the lottery. I wouldn't tell a sole.

NYM

:huh: Seems incredibly heavy handed of the DWP to prosecute someone for not declaring £10.00 p/w private pension :undecided

NYM

trollopscarletwoman wrote: »

Squeak society.

The more that some take that are not entitled to it...the less there is for those that are.