to want to report a really close friend for claiming &earning?

[havenobrain]

she claims what ever you are allowed for having two dc,no husband,no earnings. She has her mortgage paid too (interest only by gov).
She is working for an accident claims company cash in hand £70 a day and more money if the public that she names has a successful claim.
She works 5 days a week. It's not guarenteed work but she's been doing for a few months now!
She's got loads of money&me&my dh can hardly afford to pay the mortgage let alone book a holiday as she did today to Spain!
If I'm honest I'm jealous. I have no treats. My dh gets up every day at 5/6 a.m& works so hard. We have no luxuries.

Can I "lol"? Please, won't someone permit me to "lol" ?????

You can lol if you like. I will judge you for it though.

Please tell me the name of the company she works for, I could do with some extra cash!!

(btw, I don't claim benefits!)

But what if you really did literally Laugh out loud, then how to express that sentiment in non-lol terms?

my best friend claims sickness benefits, she also childminds her niece for the extra money. Would I report her? No I am her friend and I would hate to see her sink YABU if she is "your friend"

So for those in the don't report camp, what about this?

I know someone who earns 6 figures. She has a nanny who she pays 550 a week. Net. This is paid cash in hand so no paye is paid on this salary. Nanny in turn is claiming benefits, so double whammy. She gets housing benefit and is saving it for a deposit on a house.

I do not see how they will not get caught.

There is actually a lot of this with nannies. I had reason to employ a temp nanny recently and I found it very hard to find someone who was happy for me to operate paye (even though I was prepared to pay the same net).

You say HAHAHA. or hahaha. or HAHAHAHhaahhahahahHAHA HARRRRRRRR (that's a big one obviously)

lol

What's your point timetomove?

I'm curious who you hold the greater contempt for? The nanny earning and claiming or the employer paying cash in hand and not paying the necessary taxes?

Oh! what a lovely conundrum

TIMETOMOVE: thats a bit different my friend is on sickness benefits and probably earns about £50.00 per week for her food shop. People on 6 figure numbers claiming benefits is a whole different ball game and especially one who can afford a nanny

"This is the last time I'm coming on here"

more bullshit

shirleyknot, you are hillarious.

I couldn't report a friend. I don't agree with what she is doing though.

I'd report her, because I don't like unfairness. There are people out there who could genuinely do with that money. I reported a friend for not having a TV licence, because she kept showing off about it, thinking she was really clever. Not so clever when the men turned up at her door. I am a stickler for rules, I'm afraid so i think you should report her.

Thank you Duelling.

I once showed off about having put a plastic yoghurt pot into our main bin. I was all "Oh yeah, you know that main bin is only meant to be about rubbish that you can't recycle? Yeah? Well I stuck a yoghurt pot in there and a bottle of wine" and all my friends laughed and said I was cool.

Of course, later it all turned sour. One of those friends felt that they had to report me. It ruined my joy in life.

Now I recycle everything correctly, but a little bit of my soul...well...it's dead to be honest.

MissGreatBritain
good for you
its what Britain needs
all in it together

MissGreatBritain - you reported a 'friend' for not having a TV License, good friend of yours were they? Really? And you did that out of resentment and presumably to put her in her place for showing off....gosh with friends like you and all that

To clarify the person who earns 6 figures is paying tax on her own income and is not claiming benefits, but is not declaring paye on her nanny's salary. I feel contempt for the double whammy effect of this - employer not declaring paye and employee claiming benefits - so not contributing to the pot what should be contributed and taking out what they are not entitled to. The point is simply where do you draw the line - in my scenario neither the employer nor nanny would be on the breadline ( by some margin) if the tax was declared and benefits not claimed. I assumed most people would find this unacceptable, and my question is whether the amounts involved would affect people's views of whether it is wrong to report a friend ( whether the friend happens to be the nanny or the employer).

I am not planning to report by the way, but i find it hard to see how they won't get caught and I am worried for them about the fallout.

We are all in this together usual. All of us. Except for the scroungers, the disabled, the cheats, the homeless, the artists, the nurses, the civil service, the firemen, the teachers, the police (? always a tory stronghold!) the librarians, the...oh snore. I'm bored already.

fucking scrounging fuckers

now show me your tits

Yeah thanks for pointing that out timetomove - I think I'd grasped the thrust of your post.

I'm sure that the tax the employer is not paying pretty much equals out against what the nanny is claiming? If the nanny works cash in hand - in order to save the employer their contributions towards NI etc, and doesn't claim, then she's fucked isn't she? You know...in the fututre when they start totting up her pension contributions, or if she needs to claim government support

Whatever.

She works for a bank if it makes a difference.....

what?

I don't understand this thread at all! However I disapprove of benefit cheats and would shop them if I had proof.

crystalglasses

good on yer

doing what they want

I don't understand this thread at all either but totally disagree with glasses for badgers.

Yes. Glasses for badgers is just wasting precious tax payers money on short sighted wildlife. I SAY NO to that.