to bew commitig benefit fraud

[skooobie]

ok here goes....
im claiming as a single parent but p lives here but cant afford to declare it and now feeling bad> what to do??

Fanjo - quite, I could do the same! We could afford a lovely lifestyle then! How outrageous that the boring old government stop me from doing this.

Gah I hate threads like this.

mumbar - there is no "partner can stay x nights" thing - it's much more complicated than that.......

How much is your partner bringing in? He is not living there rent free I assume because that would cost more than you living without him. Of course YABU.

And you will get caught, it takes one neighbour, one phone call.

Never thought I'd be posting in agreement with a poster called StrictlyTory either
Seriosly though, report it and sort it out, you'll be doing your children a favour not harming them.

hey - maybe I should get my new man to move in with me, he's just got a lovely new job, I could pretend he's not really living here and commit fraud.....

or I could ensure that I follow the rules - unlike the OP...............

Actually posts like the OP piss me off - they give the rest of us (genuine claimants) a fucking bad name and that's why there's so much fucking benefits bashing.

YABfuckingU and presumably you know it.

DH is in the army so hardly here anyway and I do so need some new dining room chairs... am I wrong in asking the state to fund this? All I need to do is commit a few tiny little acts of fraud and I'll have the chairs I desire.

Oh yes, I guess we could slowly save up for them ourselves but where is the fun in that when the state will give me the money for free?

Agree with the ones who say ask him to move out. You can still see each other, he just cannot stay or over or contribute anything financially.

It's not worth the risk. Your name will be in the paper if you get caught!

If you want to live together then you need to put your heads together and start planning for the future.

Can I ask OP what does your dp think about this? Does he not want you to declare it? He would be a shit if he didnt.

Anyway, OP, if he is working, presumably he's paying tax, so could get tax credits if you are badly off.

Or are you just his casual shag who is sponging off you? :)

Is anyone else smelling a goat. Trip Trap.

whomoved - you think she's got a cocklodger

mamottat if I had been drinking I'm pretty sure that it would have just ended up all over my laptop screen!

The goat is very ripe, whomoved - can smell him from here!

If it's not a trip trapping little goat, then OP - what is your own moral compass saying? Presumably you're an adult and you've been taught at some point in your life that it's wrong to steal, and in which case, you're asking the question because...?

Yep, she has a cocklodger. He is taking advantage of the free house, and encouraging her to commit fraud. If the money disappears he will too.

Its quite a strange op ..anybody who knows MN would know the kind of response they would get ..you only have to mention benefit fraud on here to cause a shitstorm

Surely he's a fadgelodger? Isn't a cocklodger the female equivalent?

She wants to be careful trip trapping over bridges after all the rain we've had recently. She may be washed away.

SIL works in housing benefit fraud and told me 3 nights was the limit per week, So I think maybe that rule does exist in some areas or they use it as a broad bench mark or something.
Skoobie (if you are real) I sympathise with you, DP and I wanted to live together for a while and we had to really try to make it work it financially. We thought it would be impossible but you can make it work.

Can you get a pub job in the evenings or something at the weekend while he is around to babysit? That's if your 'ages are prohibitive of you working in the day. If you are both working full time and getting all the tax credits etc you can and you still can't afford your house the it's kind of tough luck and you need to find somewhere you can afford

Do you even have to know MN usualsuspect? Anyone who knows what reasonable people are like should know that this is wrong.

Maybe where the OP lives "everyone" is doing it and she wants to check if that is actually normal.

WMMC, I think cocklodger is a lodger whose only contribution is his cock.

no - the cock is loding in the house surely as it's her house???? would be a fadgelodger if she were staying at his without contributing - non?

I smell a goat too, but whether this is genuine or not, OP, you've nicely set yourself up for investigation now, so good luck with that!

Seriously,declare it,you will get caught.....imagine the humiliatoin if nothing else...depending on his income it may not make much difference

ooops humiliation at spelling...

you know I felt bad enough waiting 2 days to ring up and say that I'd moved back in with exH last year.........to get the final tax credits payment in (obviously now have a tax credits bill where they slightly over paid me - but right then we couldn't afford to get through the first month while other stuff was sorted without it - now I can afford to set up repayments to pay the little that is owing off)......I don't have a clue how people can live with themselves for long periods of time committing fraud