AIBU to consider reporting someone I believe is committing benefit fraud?

I’d report it without giving it any thought. I can’t stand scammers or thieves. They ruin it for everyone else. There are lots of people that really deserve help that can’t get it. Money needs to go to the right people.

Yes but my point is she can't accuse her of having no health issues and muchausens, the two are kinda opposites of each other.

And like ive said, you seem obsessed. This woman has not been in your life for years according to you, yet you are gossiping about her and stalking her social media and think you have all the facts. So go ahead and report. But you seem to have an awful lot of information for someone that you haven't personally been around for years.

And like I previously suggested, maybe you should be more like this old friend who has a million hobbies, and get some hobbies for yourself so that you dont need to spend all your time obsessing over someone who isnt even in your life.

It's not up to OP to make a diagnosis... That's fir the medics.

She should definitely anonymously report her... I'd also take screenshots of her FB posts showing her walking up mountains /doing anything else that is against what she claimed.

Why would she think it's you? If she's boasting it could be anyone...

I recently anonymously reported someone similar... I have never met them... But this man is a friend of a friend...

Benefits agency take these reports seriously.

I have no need to prove anything to you, I couldn't care less if you believe me or not but I have years of lived experience of shit health unfortunately and ive had years of hearing twats that are clueless, I just have very little tolerance for it.

But you STILL haven't explained why me telling you that you seem obsessed with this woman and need a hobby meant you saying you will tell your wheelchair user mum to do this? It literally made no sense so its not surprising you ignored that. There aren't so many posts on here that you couldn't go back and read it and explain but you wont because like at least half of what you have said is utter crap.

People can and do fake falls... Had a colleague who was previously fraud investigator-some of her stories were eye watering.

Personally I would report @hereforadviceee
This isn't just a bit of minor exaggerating... She's majorly committing benefit fraud.

She makes it much harder for folk genuinely disabled.

Get her reported. She won't go to prison if she has a child to care for. She'll just have to get a job to earn money and pay back her benefits money. It's people like her that make it hard for genuine disabled people to claim anything.
My friend's cousin is like this. Wants every diagnosis under the sun and now has moved on to the kids, even taking them out of school! It's a psychological condition in itself but it's going to ruin those poor kids' lives.

I would report someone if I knew they were committing benefit fraud, not if I only believed it.

So now you are saying she is ill as munchausens is a mental illness. So make up your mind

Ok so are you just glazing over the post where you tried to bring your mum into it and I asked why that was at all relevant? Or the posts of yours that make zero sense and all you respond is you are trying to be vague. Seriously next time you want to come up with a story, maybe take 10 minutes to sort all the holes first.

Obsessive, gossipy and spiteful.

But when you report her, know that she absolutely will find out it was you.
When you go around watching and discussing people, walls have ears.
People also have mutual friends and enemies.
Some people with be smart at deducing things.
Not saying you shouldn't report her.
Just be careful if you do.

Honestly op, do it. The government have powers to check financial records & travel data. If this person is (for example) on benefits for severe agoraphobia etc has travellee abroad several times recently they can see that quite easily. They can even surveil property.

If there's nothing to alert suspicion she'll likely never know she was checked out & can carry on with no impact.

How do you know what they wrote on the claim form & what evidence they submitted?

I work full time & compete at a fairly high standard in a sport & claim PIP. I'm not gaming the system or conning people!

Well if she's posting this sort of achievement on social media, they will have her bang to rights, won't they? Especially if someone happens to send them a copy of it. Or happens to mention the name of the place they do sporting activities.

Report her. If she's genuine it won't cause her any issues. Its likely any investigation would start with "desktop" check before even contacting her or anyone else for evidence and they wont dedicate resource to investigating it further unless they find something compelling.

This is provably nonsense.

I know people that have cheated the benefits system for YEARS including a family member who could have kept most of mumsnet quietly medicated for a month or two with the antidepressants she neither needed nor took.

But you don't have to listen to either mine or the OPs stories.

The benefit fraud bill was 6.5 billion in 2025 according to gov.uk. That is a huge number of people cheating and stealing. Taking money from honest working taxpayers and away from recipients that actually need it.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-2024-to-2025-estimates/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-ending-fye-2025#total-estimates-of-fraud-and-error-across-all-benefit-expenditure

Yes but we both know to obtain the ability to have a personal budget in order to get that, as you dont get that through direct care, you have to jump through a LOT of hoops and its not easy to get at all.

The fact is this whole story is crap, its got so many holes in, but that wont stop another benefit bashing attempt of a post.

The system sucks it really does.

Anyway, I was just making the point the kind of help op mentioned can be obtained via social care. It's crap not everyone gets the help they need and deserve.

I am not sure it is worth reporting. I have reported my neighbour more times than I can remember in the 4 years he has been claiming and nothing whatsoever has happened.

He claims he can't work because he can't leave his house due to such bad anxiety. Such a joke as he leaves his house at least 6 days a week to go shopping, meet his girlfriend, meet his son, go shopping again and, best of all, to work cash in hand for one of our neighbours.

So not only is he getting benefits he it not entitled to due to his lying he is also getting quite a bit of money (I know the neighbour pays him £10 an hour and he works between 3 and 5 days a week) he also is not paying any tax or NI. No wonder he can boast to us that he takes his girlfriend out for meals that cost £100 which he pays for!