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To ask if you've ever reported somebody for benefit fraud

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Fragmentedbrain · 17/08/2025 21:07

And if the DWP subsequently came for them

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XenoBitch · 17/08/2025 21:19

I know someone who has a lot in Premium Bonds... enough to stop their benefits. They are adamant that PB do not count towards capital. I am pretty sure it does. I have not reported them as we go into loggerheads over it, and they would know it was me.

I do know people who have been prosecuted for it though. In both cases, they had partners living with them that they had not declared.
A few times, people on here have said that they have reported people and nothing was done. If you report someone, you are not told of the outcome.

milmh · 17/08/2025 21:13

No but have wanted to on more than one occasion. I feel if the government wanted to bring down the benefits bill fast they could offer a small reward to ‘shop a fraud’ and the encouragement would drive out thousands of them!