Benefit Fraud

BJV

Op you know what the right thing to do is. You would not of posted the question otherwise. What you wanted was for people to validate your decision.

OP you need to call them. The benefit system is there to help people and they are not stupid they will find out in the end.

I understand it must feel like a hard choice family etc but it is not. Its black over white, right over wrong. Call them.

teddysmum

I wouldn't report something like the odd cash in hand job, while on benefits, but this large figure being claimed is something else.


The pot is limited, so someone, probably in need, is going without.


Reporting doesn't always mean investigation, either.


I know someone who reported a person (whose circumstances they well knew) on DLA and other benefits, who was actually doing a cash in hand job (heavy manual lifting), which his exaggerated disability (bad back), if genuine, would have made impossible.


Nothing was done, as the authorities took the word of the employer that work was not being done, yet it would have been easy to plant someone to observe, because the work was being done openly.

chelseablue

Yes that was me :-)
I must give my partner credit for changing a hell of a lot in the last 3 years, he has worked his way up to get a much better job than he had before, earning about 10k a year more.


At least he earnt the 100 quid and didn't get it through fraud

AndyBSG

I'd report it in a heartbeat.

It's theft, plain and simple, and that theft is taking money away from people and places where it is really needed.

Pollycat

chelseablue wrote: »

Oh they're quite open about it :eek:

I think this would make my mind up for me, almost bragging that they are abusing the system.

Dill

I know somebody who took in a lodger but didn't tell the benefits office. They found out, but weren't able to take him to court because there was no rent book, no paperwork to be able to prove anything.

The vast majority of calls to the benefit fraud hotline are made by people who've got unsettled business with the alleged fraudster. (Arguments, etc)

I would just ask yourself what you are hoping to gain by reporting them, and how you would feel, knowing that you have alerted the authorities. The fact that you are on here asking seems to suggest that you have your doubts about reporting them?

chelseablue

If I wasn't related to them Id be on the phone as I type.


I guess maybe Im worried that if it was ever found out that it was me who reported them I'd be disowned or something

Caroline_a

Guest101 wrote: »

Your friend is talking absolute rubbish, no one has unrestricted access to other people property.

Sorry to say this was many, many years ago, and I have no reason to think he or his colleagues that I met were lying. The rules were different then.

Hard_Up_Hester

Save your breath, I have reported someone and it's not even been investigated and this if a major fraud, no just someone working on the side.

Pollycat

Hard_Up_Hester wrote: »

Save your breath, I have reported someone and it's not even been investigated and this if a major fraud, no just someone working on the side.

How do you know this?