Benefit Fraud - interview under caution

dippy3103

tomb50 wrote: »

Nice try dippy, you've obviously not come across my other thread re overpayments, council & DWP.

I wasn't trying anything. I was genuinely offering to help

dippy3103

dippy3103 wrote: »

I wasn't trying anything. I was genuinely offering to help

Found it.... With respect you are comparing apples with pears.

Did the Pension Service ever sort it out? I do agree though.. They take a long time to deal with these things & my heart goes out to those people that have to wait, sometimes really needing the money.

Some of us benefit folk are lovely though

tomb50

You still out there Dippy?

I just remembered this thread, and come back to it for some help from yourself, hopefully.

With the utmost respect, apples & pears?. NO. Benefit overpayments. No matter the source.

While a regular but not particularly frequent visitor to this site, (I find once or twice a week is enough to allow new threads to appear), obviously over time I've come to recognise the handfull of posters who can be trusted to provide accurate and unbiased advice, such as yourself.

As someone who apparently works within 'The System', you've read my thread and have an idea of the problems I've had trying to get DWP to either take back the overpayments, (Sitting in my bank account from day 1, waiting to be reclaimed), or provide me with a piece of paper stating that it was yet another offical '!!!! Up', and , as it was their fault, then , possibly years later, these overpayments cannot be retrospectively reclaimed . After 18 months of writing and phoning, DWP seem to be determined not to provide with me with this piece of paper. ie. not to acknowledge that this was an 'Official Error'

After a bit of online research I have my own views about what DWP are doing here to reduce the figures for Official Error, heavily criticised by the House Of Commons Select Committee . If DWP don't acknowledge the 'Official Error' has occurred then it won't be included in the annual figures, and the figures will continue to reduce since 2012, when apparently, DWP stopped informing claimants that an 'Official Error' had resulted in an overpayment. (Every other department fiddles their figures, Inflation, Crime, Unemployment, etc. Why would DWP be any different?)

PS I'd ask Pmlindyloo this, but this has been dragging on for so long I might be trying even HER patience to breaking point...

SUMMARY.

I made a new claim. I messed up. DWP told me I'd messed up. I corrected problem. DWP then messed up.

Thanks in advance for any help in resolving this Dippy.

angelmummy999

Hi I myself have found myself in this horrid mess of housing benefit fraud, I was pulled in for interview under caution in July and was really stressed and panicked about it. I had forgot to inform them that my partner had started work in January this year, due to a lot of stress from having chest infections and being told I now have asthma brought on by the infections and also having to try and sort out my dad's finances as he had gotten behind in bills due to my brother failing to his rent, tv and license also not putting money on the meters. I had taken over my dad's finances and stopped the court action to evict him. And in trying to do 101 things I forget to inform the council over the change with my partners new job. It is 6 mths of payments at 73 quid a week.

Really stressed about the letter that came through to asking me to attend another interview next week which is going to be taped.

pmlindyloo

angelmummy999 wrote: »

Hi I myself have found myself in this horrid mess of housing benefit fraud, I was pulled in for interview under caution in July and was really stressed and panicked about it. I had forgot to inform them that my partner had started work in January this year, due to a lot of stress from having chest infections and being told I now have asthma brought on by the infections and also having to try and sort out my dad's finances as he had gotten behind in bills due to my brother failing to his rent, tv and license also not putting money on the meters. I had taken over my dad's finances and stopped the court action to evict him. And in trying to do 101 things I forget to inform the council over the change with my partners new job. It is 6 mths of payments at 73 quid a week.

Really stressed about the letter that came through to asking me to attend another interview next week which is going to be taped.

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