DWP compliance review

TELLIT01

When I worked for DWP we had to log any instance of access in incorrect file (easy to transpose a couple of characters or numbers) and it was quite common to be asked if we had accessed xyz files.  The partner of the OPs' ex would be taking a huge risk if they did so.  As has been said, they wouldn't need to access any files to register an anonymous report.  Has the OP considered it could even be their ex who did it, just to make life difficult?

Muttleythefrog

TELLIT01 said:

When I worked for DWP we had to log any instance of access in incorrect file (easy to transpose a couple of characters or numbers) and it was quite common to be asked if we had accessed xyz files.  The partner of the OPs' ex would be taking a huge risk if they did so.  As has been said, they wouldn't need to access any files to register an anonymous report.  Has the OP considered it could even be their ex who did it, just to make life difficult?

Yup... worth saying people can be funny complex animals... you also couldn't rule out someone knows her situation is one of potential dispute.. has some jealousy or is deviously inclined and decides to cause trouble for multiple parties. When I ran pub... in the days before UC admittedly... I had a few customers who had been reported over benefit fraud and in almost every case I did find out who made the report (because in a pub you find everyone ready to gossip or confess to things!) and it was not who they suspected.. in a couple of cases people were in new relationships and the person who reported them was their new partner.. not as they suspected their ex who of course would be immediately blamed which was the plan!

As Pete says I'd chalk it up... the issue has gone away... the partner has too... they should try to move on unless they try to interfere in future with getting on normally with family life.  Play a straight face as if nothing happened... that might cause some frustration and mistake if anyone close did report.