To think there are some false friends in RL HERE

[everthebeliver]

After reading a particular post tonight about benefit fraud and a "close friend" I am gobsmacked that someone who say's she is a "close friend" would even consider reporting her for benefit fraud. If she was running a multi million pound company and claiming then fair enough, or even if it was a neighbour ten doors down that she has no friendship with, but your best friend!!!!
I am so glad that I have not really made RL friends here because I would not know who to trust and that is said in the nicest possible way :)

Of course there are people who take the piss and are greedy, but on the whole OP I think if you know the circumstances behind why people would go to the lengths of breaking the law to get some cash, they become more understandable.

I can imagine a situation where a person's been out of work all their lives, had no money in the family growing up, manages to get by on what they get from the state but are unable to improve their situation in any way.

I would understand if they perhaps took on some summer work without declaring it, because to declare it would mean weeks and weeks of uncertainty while they sorted out signing you off/on again.

It's not something I would consider, but I would be more inclined to give my loyalty to my friend than the 'state', if such a thing existed in anything other than our imagination.

Agent: my BF has worked most of her life since she was a teenager and it was only circumstances that made her claim sickness benefit, she is not living of the state through choice but through circumstance. It is something that like you she would never have considered in the past but her life has changed. She is in this situation for the time being and is making the most of her life and like many others has paid into the system for years so is only taking back what she has paid in for the short term. If she had never worked a day in her life I still would not report her, why because she is someone that I know and that is what this thread is all about. Do you report your BF for trying to make ends meet in a really bad time???? NO

//I would not know who to trust and that is said in the nicest possible way //

Pass agg love :)

Pretty mean to start a thread highlighting another thread in the way that you have done.

Perhaps this person has already tried to reason with the cheat and has failed. Should she report her? If her conscience tells her she should then yes, after all her friend is cheating hard working tax payers like myself. Ultimately we are footing the bill for the billions of fraudulent claims.

So I'm with the OP of the other thread.

YABU

libraries and swimming pools are closing cause there is not enough money to pay for them.
So many jobs have / will be lost due to funding.

Id report anyone who i knew was frauding the system... its my taxes they are stealing. Am more than happy for anyone who needs to use the system we have voted for to use it, thats what its for, am NOT happy for anyone to fraud the system and thus raise my taxes to fund their greed.

Is her friend being a true friend to expect her to keep secret about illegal activities?

'Friends help you move, real friends help you move bodies'

Although I've not tested/been tested on that front morticia...yet