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Reported possible benefit fraud

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snitchapparently · 25/03/2025 16:16

I suspect someone of claiming carers allowance fraudulently, and after bottling out several times, I just submitted a report. It’s likely to get back to me if something comes of this and I feel like the bad guy for doing it. Am I the bad guy?! Should I just not have said anything?!

To claim you need to be providing 35 hours a week of care and also earn under a certain threshold and I’m fairly sure this person meets neither of those criteria. (If I’m wrong, of course, there will be no ill effect to the claim).

Feel quite stressed.

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Bitofanchange · 25/03/2025 17:59

snitchapparently · 25/03/2025 17:10

It…. really is. It’s completely unassessed. If you say the right thing, you’ll receive it unchallenged. And it’s not a particularly high bar. Most elderly folk could probably get this.

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You are incredibly naive and misinformed with your analogy of AA is easy to obtain, the application form one is too much for many people to even start a claim.

lifeturnsonadime · 25/03/2025 17:58

snitchapparently · 25/03/2025 17:56

No, I knew it would be a mixed bag! Though the support for fraudulent claims is larger than I’d have thought.

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Not one post on here supports fraudulent claims.

You have lost all credibility with this post.

fatphalange · 25/03/2025 17:58

You've got dread in the pit of your stomach, shitting yourself feeling haven't you. You fucked up.

Oioisavaloy27 · 25/03/2025 17:58

snitchapparently · 25/03/2025 17:56

No, I knew it would be a mixed bag! Though the support for fraudulent claims is larger than I’d have thought.

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Absolutely unbelievable...................

ZookeeperSE · 25/03/2025 17:58

So, one more try … You’ve heavily implied the elderly person must be claiming AA as it isn’t assessed. Ergo, you are also implying they are fraudulently claiming. So, have you reported them too?

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snitchapparently · 25/03/2025 17:57

Blemin · 25/03/2025 17:54

@snitchapparently TBH I'd leave and hide this thread now. It's going to be you being relentlessly slagged off for a thousand posts and that's just going to make you feel victimised and you will lose the precious insight you just gained.

It's ok to just hide the thread and disengage. You don't need to take on all comers.

Thanks for your understanding and your insight Blemin

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DrPrunesqualer · 25/03/2025 17:57

MoreChocPls · 25/03/2025 16:33

There’s over £1.35 BILLION of benefit fraud. Every little adds up and serves as a deterrent.

yanbu.

Agree

Benefit fraud is tax payers money
You did the right thing OP

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snitchapparently · 25/03/2025 17:56

ZookeeperSE · 25/03/2025 17:55

The fact you have come to mumnet to ask if you are the bad guy suggest to me that you think you may have done something wrong

Lol. Don’t think so. Think they thought they’d get a unanimous pat on the back.

No, I knew it would be a mixed bag! Though the support for fraudulent claims is larger than I’d have thought.

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Mache71 · 25/03/2025 17:56

Wow no wonder the government are the biggest enenfiy frauds. You literally have no proof of fraud and aren’t even sure

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snitchapparently · 25/03/2025 17:55

SerendipityJane · 25/03/2025 17:52

What size cape do you take ?

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😂

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PyongyangKipperbang · 25/03/2025 17:55

And a PP makes a good point......if someone like you reported me I wouldnt be able to manage financially so would have to go back to work FT and my parents would need agency carers which would cost the government more PER DAY than they currently pay me per week. How is that balance sheet looking now?

ETA that is to say, I wouldnt manage if it was suspended during an investigation which can take months. I have not claimed fraudulently but it would still cause me and my parents huge problems whilst this was being proven.

ZookeeperSE · 25/03/2025 17:55

The fact you have come to mumnet to ask if you are the bad guy suggest to me that you think you may have done something wrong

Lol. Don’t think so. Think they thought they’d get a unanimous pat on the back.

Blemin · 25/03/2025 17:54

@snitchapparently TBH I'd leave and hide this thread now. It's going to be you being relentlessly slagged off for a thousand posts and that's just going to make you feel victimised and you will lose the precious insight you just gained.

It's ok to just hide the thread and disengage. You don't need to take on all comers.

Contkabia · 25/03/2025 17:54

They can’t work full time because you can’t get carers allowance if you earn over £125pw. You, OP, don’t have all the information.

You are in the wrong here.

Oioisavaloy27 · 25/03/2025 17:54

snitchapparently · 25/03/2025 17:49

My version of fair is that taxpayers money is used appropriately and claimed by people entitled. Which is all I was aiming for.

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Are you a reporter?

Lavenderflower · 25/03/2025 17:53

The fact you have come to mumnet to ask if you are the bad guy suggest to me that you think you may have done something wrong. I understand your rational for reporting the person. You seem to suggest a person cannot be carer because they work full-time. This lis like saying a persona cannot be a parent because their child go to nursery or school. There is 24 hours in a day. I personally wouldn't report a carer - my friend had to care for both her parents at different period. She was broke. I gave her money on occasions. Even if someone is doing cash and hand - that person is saving the government a lot of pay. It cost lots of money for professional carers.

PyongyangKipperbang · 25/03/2025 17:53

snitchapparently · 25/03/2025 17:49

My version of fair is that taxpayers money is used appropriately and claimed by people entitled. Which is all I was aiming for.

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And now?

Now that you know that they may well have an active claim but not be receiving any money (information that is easily found via a quick google)?

Shame all your apparent soul searching didnt involve hard fact searching before you decided to throw a hand grenade into someone elses life.

SerendipityJane · 25/03/2025 17:52

snitchapparently · 25/03/2025 17:49

My version of fair is that taxpayers money is used appropriately and claimed by people entitled. Which is all I was aiming for.

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What size cape do you take ?

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snitchapparently · 25/03/2025 17:49

Createausernam · 25/03/2025 17:48

No - being fair was the last thing you were trying to be.

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My version of fair is that taxpayers money is used appropriately and claimed by people entitled. Which is all I was aiming for.

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SerendipityJane · 25/03/2025 17:49

Carers allowance, fraudulently? It's about fifty quid a week isn't it? Not exactly a kings ransom.

You'd be better off getting your next door neighbour to setup a shonky PPE company. OP would wave that through.

pimplebum · 25/03/2025 17:49

its clearly someone you don’t like at all

i suspect a sibling , or ex

ok you may be right to end a person’s fraudulent claim

how are you going to deal with the fall out? , you will probably be found out because there will be a small circle of people who know they claim the allowance and even smaller circle who know are in the know enough to know it’s fraudulent

Starlightstarbright4 · 25/03/2025 17:49

Bignanna · 25/03/2025 17:45

If the person reported by op is investigated and found to be innocent, then there isn’t a problem.

If the person claiming legitimate it still causes a huge amount of stress .

I have never been investigated but it doesn’t take much to work out been investigated for fraud , wondering who reported you , who you can trust . Doesn’t have an impact for something OP has an idea about

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snitchapparently · 25/03/2025 17:48

Createausernam · 25/03/2025 17:47

Of course I can make that claim. And I stand by it 100%.

You've just said to someone "I can see that, it’s incredibly unfair of a system to do that to you."

How can you not know that that's what the system does to people?

It is simply not credible for you to claim that you don't know - the cruelty of the DWP is widely reported and has been for years.

So yes - you knew what you were doing, you wanted to hurt these people because you felt they were getting something they weren't entitled to you and oh boo hoo that's not fair on you.

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You can stand by whatever you like, it doesn’t make you right.

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Createausernam · 25/03/2025 17:48

snitchapparently · 25/03/2025 17:46

That was truly my thought. I see here others have not had that experience. I wasn’t trying to be evil, I was trying to be fair.

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No - being fair was the last thing you were trying to be.

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