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To think I am being stalked by benefit fraud people?

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Secretnamechange123 · 27/11/2025 16:00

No. I don’t take any recreational drugs, I’m not schizophrenic, I don’t hear voices and I am not being paranoid. Just thought I’d clear that up.

For the last few weeks down my road there’s been a few different cars turn up every morning and stays until later afternoon. The driver almost always stays in the car.

i am a genuine benefits receiver and I need assistance to move, so they won’t catch me wandering the streets, or popping out shopping/gym, unless I have available help, which is possibly once a month. Yes, for a whole month I am stuck inside. They would have seen my meds turn up in a boots pharmacy van, my shopping delivered which is usually time when my neighbours are home to help me. I live alone, I have no support, I don’t know what they are trying to catch? Their car is very unassuming but I live on a street with mine and my neighbours are attached and no more houses for half a mile.

Theyre not stalking my neighbours because they’re not on benefits, so I am guessing it can only mean it’s for me. I don’t have any criminal background, I basically sit in my house for weeks on end, do you think someone is trying to get me into trouble for no reason?

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Namechange234567 · 27/11/2025 16:06

They could just be looking at the traffic on your street, we had that before traffic calming measures were put in place.

ThatWildMintSloth · 27/11/2025 16:06

If you are not doing anything wrong then they won't find anything so nothing to worry about...

But also you sound extremely paranoid because an unfamiliar car on your road should not be leading to this thought process. Very irrational

Prelim · 27/11/2025 16:05

They might be stalking one of your neighbours? Jealous lover, private detective? If you’re concerned it might be something nefarious then call 111. If it is a benefit checker then you’ve obviously got nothing to worry about so pop a film on, read a book, and stop looking out the window and let them get on with it.