To report friend for fraud?

Your friend is obviously in the wrong (if you have your facts straight), but nobody has died and you just don't grass people up, especially not friends.

Advise her not to flaunt it or some nasty, jealous person will report her though no doubt she will have a story ready.

Just leave it alone, it's not your business. Living on benefits is not easy. I understand it is permissible to earn a little whilst receiving benefits.

Money which the government/state takes with menaces and under false pretenses.

Snitches get stitches

Nobody likes a grass

“Never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut."

Informer, ya’ no say daddy me Snow me I go blam. I lick he boom-boom down.

jus saying ... but if that's how you choose to live your life 🤷‍♀️ guaranteed it will come back and bite you on the ass, grasses are universally regarded as the lowest of the low by people who move in sketchy circles. But if you want to be referred to as the coppers nark for the rest of your life - go for it.

Not necessarily, if she is in receipt of Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit, that will come from tax payers

Didn't we all have a very similar debate the other day? are you the same poster?

Universal Credit Fraud www.mumsnet.com/Talk/money-matters/5162765-universal-credit-fraud?msgid=-5162765#-5162765

I wouldn't, but I do understand the frustration. I've watched my DB & others who own businesses claim personal items, vehicles, leisure craft, travel etc as business expenses & pay almost no tax. It pisses me off when we pay full tax & full price for everything. But I'd do it too if I could & it'd be hypocritical!

I did comment to a friend about misuse of her DC's disability funding. It's meant for therapy & essential items & she was wasting it on horse riding lessons, not turning up for appointments (you pay regardless) & buying stuff for her DC's party & Xmas stockings. Quite proudly proclaiming it, too. As a consequence of people like her doing this, the govt is reducing our ability to manage funding ourselves & starting to dictate exactly what therapies & items we can use it for. My DS has funding & we've always been careful but will still pay the price. Fraud affects everyone.

Snitches get stitches.

I doubt shes flaunting what she has if she's doing this move on and forget it your not her friend

Weird comment. For two people and a pooled income, yes, £250k is fairly normal. But for one person, £250k is massive and the overwhelming majority of single earners would not be able to afford that home.

Maybe it is a quarter of a Mill House.

Years ago as a teenager I went to a party at Mill House in Rowfant - maybe the friend owns a quarter of this old house? 😆

A £250k house is like a tiny starter flat in many parts of the country - and won't buy you a shoe box in others.

1/4 Mill house
So 250k
Thats really not that much at all
What a weird way to put it

I live in a lovely new 4 bed detached house which cost £350k. I moved this year from an equally lovely new 5 bed detached house which cost £215k in 2021. With a mortgage not a council house. Neither of them are in deprived areas nor do they have tiny bedrooms. Not every part of the UK has massively inflated house prices. Half of our monthly household income is made up of benefits.

Anyway, on the subject of your "friend", it's entirely possibly to work and claim benefits. My partner works full time. I could work too and still receive benefits. People are also allowed to work for cash and can declare that. You don't know anybody's individual circumstances. People in real life certainly don't know mine and probably don't realise we even get benefits. And even if she isn't being genuine, you aren't being some sort of martyr by reporting her.

Mind your own business.

Well yes. Its exactly the fact that she really doesn't generate her own income anymore and is playing the system. She's only doing minimal work and claiming UC to avoid anyone questioning how she's earning a living. That way no one asks how she's paid of her mortgage and is out of the country for months at a time.

However part of me thinks it might just be envy as she can swan around and not really work. I don't want to be that person though, especially as she's genuinely quite fun to know and maybe I'd do the same if I was her. Who knows.

I think I'll cool the friendship. She's not so bothered anyway as I don't have the money to join her on trips and expensive meals out these days.

No it is not. If everyone did this the country would be even more bankrupt.

She is not stealing from the government, she is stealing from all the people who pay tax with her benefit fraud and working cash in hand so presumably not declaring her income and paying tax.

There is no magic money tree.

And don’t get me started on uk business owners who have moved offshore

Oh yes, well spotted.

@SpiderGwen Also keen to know location of detached 5 bedroom houses for £250K - we’d all like one, OP.

There's something called "Google." It's this thing called a "search engine" that can show you things that you are looking for.

They are in places where wealthy mumsnetters don't want to live- that's why they are cheap.

Why write daft things when a 30 second google search would show that there are indeed £250k 5 bed detached houses in the UK?

The reason why they are £250k is because they are in places where wealthy mumsnetters do not want to live. You don't pay for the house, you pay for the location.

Yes but I don't think that's the issue for people. Report someone, by all means, but if you are going to do that, you can't in the next breath say they're a 'friend'.
People don't grass on their friends. Simple as that.

'Friend' 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Well, no, because they are a FRIEND. If their behaviour is annoying you and you're beginning to resent them for how they generate their income, it's probably best you call time on the friendship.

A 5 bed detached house that is worth £250k? Don't be daft.

Also keen to know location of detached 5 bedroom houses for £250K - we’d all like one, OP.

As the amount of benefit fraud is roughly 2.8% in the UK, I think the 97.2% of honest claims is rather encouraging.

If you are “friends” with one of that 2.8%, shop them if you want to. But maybe reconsider your definition of Friendship.

Actually, for one person, a £250k house IS a lot. Keep in mind that most houses are bought between two people, so that would be equivalent to a colossal £500k home.

You can't imagine how a friend benefiting from cheating the system becomes annoying? They weren't doing this when our friendship started.
But now I resent the fact she has access to a large pot of money, so can work very little and claim benefits because she can get away with it.