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Calls to DWP Benefit Fraud Hotline Double
Mersey_2
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Calls to the DWP Benefit Fraud Hotline in Spain have doubled since 2010.
Over £5m has been recovered and the team in Madrid has handled over 1,300 cases in Spain and the Canary Islands, since Iain Duncan Smith opened the Madrid office.
900 55 44 40 www.dwp.gov.uk/benefit-thieves-spain
Over £5m has been recovered and the team in Madrid has handled over 1,300 cases in Spain and the Canary Islands, since Iain Duncan Smith opened the Madrid office.
900 55 44 40 www.dwp.gov.uk/benefit-thieves-spain
Please be polite to OPs and remember this is a site for Claimants and Appellants to seek redress against their bank, ex-boss or retailer. If they wanted morality or the view of the IoD or Bank they'd ask them.
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How can you sign on if you live in Spain?0
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You can, for up to three months, if eligible for contributions JSA and you are living in the EU (not just Spain) to actively seek work but I guess the fraud hotline is to target people on other benefits and not JSA.How can you sign on if you live in Spain?
The signing on bit for JSA when abroad is done in whatever Jobcentre Plus offices equivalent that country has. The country you are in pays you and then claims it back from the DWP. It works the other way around too with people from the EU able to come here and claim their equivalent of contributory JSA for up to three months. The DWP pays it and is then reimbursed from the relevant national government.0 -
All true. I think the DWP were targeting fraudulent Pension Credit, War Widows' Bereavement and so on in Spain, as well as HB & CTB, where council and social tenants were living in Spain and subletting their UK properties. There were also a few bogus/ghost claims for state pension (and the resultant winter fuel etc), ie claiming for people who had died.Please be polite to OPs and remember this is a site for Claimants and Appellants to seek redress against their bank, ex-boss or retailer. If they wanted morality or the view of the IoD or Bank they'd ask them.0
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When I was last in Spain visiting my mum I was shocked by the amount of motorbility cars over there! Lots of DLA over there.0
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Ha well ITV's Benidorm is amusing as many of us know families like that.Please be polite to OPs and remember this is a site for Claimants and Appellants to seek redress against their bank, ex-boss or retailer. If they wanted morality or the view of the IoD or Bank they'd ask them.0
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