Moral dilemma: to report a blatant benefit thief?

[PopGoesTheWeasle]

I don't like to think of myself as one to dob on others, but our neighbour is commiting such blatant benefit fraud it makes me sick. DH works bloody hard for a pitance and I'll be going back to work when DD is really young so we can keep paying the bills. Meanwhile, our lazy arsed neighbour is milking it, saying he's too ill to work but making a tidy living selling things he's made in his garage and wheeling and dealing on ebay. He's got 3 cars (one worth £10,000) when he barely even needs 1. Grrrr...

I have no doubt many criminals are nice peolple who help others

May I ask, why ?

Cumfy

Sorry but please explain.

Why don't we all report everyone we know who's in receipt of benefits, just to be on the same side

How about just those we are aware of cheating the system.

Support the genuine and shop the ponces

if he's not on the fiddle he will have a problem when they stop his benefits while they investigate him.

newwave Thu 30-Sep-10 15:24:42
"Report him, he wont find out if you dont give your name and number. If he is not on the fiddle then he wont have a problem."

This has been explained already. It is likely that his benefits will be stopped while he is being investigated. Which may well count as a problem. If I was suspended from work with no salary, it wouldn't matter how innocent I was: I'd still consider that a problem.

I do think benefit frauds should be stopped, but the OP has provided no evidence. If she has it, then fine and good.

But the OP doesn't know her neighbour is doing that. She knows he doesn't work and is resentful because he has a nicer car than her. She doesn't even know what kind of benefit he's in receipt of.

So she's just being envious and spiteful as far as I can see.

If you truly believe he is a benefit fraud then you should report him.

Newwave

Why I have no doubt many criminals are nice peolple who help others

given that criminal are simply people who break the law then anybody on here who has had a speeding conviction is a criminal. Criminals are any individual who is convicted of committing a crime.

The bloke the OP refers to is not, so far as she states, a criminal. She suspects him of benefit fraud. If she was 100% certain no doubt she would have called the relevant authorities. As yet it isn't a crime to be better off than another, nor to have a 'nicer' car, but how about committing the sin of ?