Benefit Fraud

andygb

If someone was going to commit benefit fraud, why on earth would they ask for both payslips and benefit claim forms to be sent to their neighbour's address?
This sounds to me more like a mistake by the postie (it happens to us quite regularly).
The OP should have given the UNOPENED mail to the neighbour.
Maybe the neighbour has just lost their job and received a final payslip - who knows?

nannytone_2

to return mail marked ' not at this address' would have been enough.

to call the prospective employer to tell them all about the person ' they don't get on with' is just malicious.

glad i don't have any dealings with this poster

Carrot007

Mail in this here country is legally only delivered to an address. The name is unimportant.

If the name is not yours and it comes it is up to you to decide what to do with it.

Yes you are not allowed to act in detriment to the actual person but why would you. It is more important to protect your address to fraud.

Poppie68

I would just pass them over to the neighbour apologise for opening them and if the address is incorrect tell them to inform the senders, not everything is a conspiracy it could just be a simple error after all why on earth would the neighbour get their payslips and a benefit claim forms sent to a strangers house?

nannytone_2

Carrot007 wrote: »

Mail in this here country is legally only delivered to an address. The name is unimportant.

If the name is not yours and it comes it is up to you to decide what to do with it.

Yes you are not allowed to act in detriment to the actual person but why would you. It is more important to protect your address to fraud.

redrosierosie DID sct to the detriment of her (?) neighbour.

innstead of returning it marked 'not at this address' or simply ignoring it ...
they chose to act on the information given in the letter merely because they didn't like the neighbour.

nasty piece of work and i hope karma catches up with them real soon

the neighbour wasn't trying to defraud anyone ... just to get a job
they didn't know for sure that anyone was pretending to live elsewhere ... merely that the letter was incorrectly addressed.

tommytynan123

tomtom256 wrote: »

I would read the Postal Services Act 2000 if I were you!

84 Interfering with the mail: general

(1)A person commits an offence if, without reasonable excuse, he—

(a)intentionally delays or opens a postal packet in the course of its transmission by post, or

(b)intentionally opens a mail-bag.

(2)Subsections (2) to (5) of section 83 apply to subsection (1) above as they apply to subsection (1) of that section.

(3)A person commits an offence if, intending to act to a person’s detriment and without reasonable excuse, he opens a postal packet which he knows or reasonably suspects has been incorrectly delivered to him.

(4)Subsections (2) and (3) of section 83 (so far as they relate to the opening of postal packets) apply to subsection (3) above as they apply to subsection (1) of that section.

(5)A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) or (3) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.

Unless I know they are just flyers I open them and if required comment and send back - everytime. If they are nothing then I bin them. I have a member of family who would get very very anxious if they found the letters wrongly addressed.

TELLIT01

If a letter or package is delivered to your address with no return address on the reverse, and isn't in your name, what are the alternatives to opening it? Bin it? In this case a payslip would have disappeared and the proper recipient would have their benefit claim stopped for failing to provide required information.
The OP says ONE of the letters was addressed to his neighbour, not both. If I'd had two deliveries to my address like that I would be wondering what was going on too. The OP has done the right thing by returning both items to the sender.
I recently had a large parcel left outside my house with my address but not my name on it. I didn't recognise the name so had no choice but to open it to try to determine a return address. It was only after the package was opened that the correct address could be determined. If I hadn't opened the package it would still be sitting, rotting in our front garden.