Benefit Fraud

trigger_fish

seekinghelp81 wrote: »

Hello... I've been doing some reading up today and it led me here, I'm hoping someone can answer my questions.

Basically, I've filed a report about my neighbour with the fraud hotline. It came to my attention that the lady next door has been claiming working & child tax credit for years and continued to claim as a single parent after her partner moved in. At the very least she has been claiming as a single person for nearly 18 months (at over £400 a month) whilst the partner has been living there. We found this out when my husband was on a night out and got talking to the neighbours boyfriend, over a drunken conversation the boyfriend was mouthing off that the neighbour wouldn't cancel her claim and had even renewed it after he'd already been there for 6 months!!

Me and my husband both work full time, we work opposite shifts so we can balance child care and aside from child benefit we get no help what so ever so it really gets me that the neighbour can blatantly abuse the system.
Now I have reported this what will happen? is there a time line in how these matters are dealt with? I'd hopped to be able to keep track of the report but they don't allow you to do this.

Thanks

The standard curtain twitcher thread.

trigger_fish

seekinghelp81 wrote: »

Hello... I've been doing some reading up today and it led me here, I'm hoping someone can answer my questions.

Basically, I've filed a report about my neighbour with the fraud hotline. It came to my attention that the lady next door has been claiming working & child tax credit for years and continued to claim as a single parent after her partner moved in. At the very least she has been claiming as a single person for nearly 18 months (at over £400 a month) whilst the partner has been living there. We found this out when my husband was on a night out and got talking to the neighbours boyfriend, over a drunken conversation the boyfriend was mouthing off that the neighbour wouldn't cancel her claim and had even renewed it after he'd already been there for 6 months!!

Me and my husband both work full time, we work opposite shifts so we can balance child care and aside from child benefit we get no help what so ever so it really gets me that the neighbour can blatantly abuse the system.
Now I have reported this what will happen? is there a time line in how these matters are dealt with? I'd hopped to be able to keep track of the report but they don't allow you to do this.

Thanks

How do you know what she has been claiming?



Probably deserves to be sanctioned for being stupid enough in telling you anything.

paragon909

I wonder if the OP knows all of her neighbours business like down to the exact type of benefit they get! DWP may send her a letter asking her for a benefit review, They may turn up to her house and do an inspection... If they find her in the wrong am quite sure DWP give civil rewards of upto £50 for grasses.

Even asking if there is a time limit, Is the OP that desperate for the "lady" to be in trouble or not...

trigger_fish

Mojisola wrote: »

If you saw your neighbour stealing from other neighbours would you say nothing because you think being a grass is worse than being a thief?

Around here neighbours don't steal from neighbours and if they did we'd sort it out ourselves.



Extrapolated fraud is 0.9%-ONS figure. In other words very small. And this thread is of course a fantasy.

seekinghelp81

paragon909 wrote: »

I wonder if the OP knows all of her neighbours business like down to the exact type of benefit they get! DWP may send her a letter asking her for a benefit review, They may turn up to her house and do an inspection... If they find her in the wrong am quite sure DWP give civil rewards of upto £50 for grasses.

Even asking if there is a time limit, Is the OP that desperate for the "lady" to be in trouble or not...

It doesn't take a lot of intuition to work out that something doesn't add up, if you're neighbour is in a low paid job but seems to be living the high life something isnt right. What the boyfriend said in conversion explains a lot. I'm not looking for rewards, it just !!!!es me off that people in this country work extremely hard whilst others take the !!!!, so yes if she is guilty I hope they throw the book at her

trigger_fish

paragon909 wrote: »

DWP give civil rewards of upto £50 for grasses.

I thought that was a myth but I'd love to know if otherwise.

seekinghelp81

trigger_fish wrote: »

One millionth of a penny at worst.


I'll sleep fine.

From what the boyfriend said they've been pulling in just short of £500 a month, which if they declared they were a couple they wouldn't be entitled to. bit more the a 'millionth of a penny'

Nooney123456789

paragon909 wrote: »

I wonder if the OP knows all of her neighbours business like down to the exact type of benefit they get! DWP may send her a letter asking her for a benefit review, They may turn up to her house and do an inspection... If they find her in the wrong am quite sure DWP give civil rewards of upto £50 for grasses.

Even asking if there is a time limit, Is the OP that desperate for the "lady" to be in trouble or not...

That's what I thought she seems to want a blow by blow account of what's happening so that she can savour in her victory over someone who she obviously has other issues with but doesn't have the bottle to take her on face to face.

trigger_fish

seekinghelp81 wrote: »

From what the boyfriend said they've been pulling in just short of £500 a month, which if they declared they were a couple they wouldn't be entitled to. bit more the a 'millionth of a penny'

Think wider about what I mean by "millionth of a penny".

seekinghelp81

Nooney123456789 wrote: »

That's what I thought she seems to want a blow by blow account of what's happening so that she can savour in her victory over someone who she obviously has other issues with but doesn't have the bottle to take her on face to face.

My only issue is the potential benefit fraud, if I am wrong I'll hold my hands up