Pushed over the edge by benefit cheats!

[CheekyChoppers]

I'm getting increasingly annoyed with my neighbours family, we're very close and have been for a long time, but they are just so loose cheeky it makes me want to do something! But at the same time I don't know if I should just mind my own!!

My neighbour has three daughters;

Daughter 'A' lives in a council property with her children and claims all her entitled benefits as a single parent. Her long term boyfriend also lives with her, and he works full time earning a lot of money. He owns his own property which they rent out to make more cash for themselves!

Daughter 'B' lives in a council property with her son and claims benefits as a single person, although her partner also lives there and works full time.

Daughter 'C' (this is what's really pissed me off today!). She is married and lives with her husband and children in their own (mortgaged) property. They both work and earn good money. She however has made a dodgy application to the council housing list and has been offered a property which they are goin to accept! They plan to sell their home!

It annoys the hell out of me that so much money is being fraudulently claimed, and that it is clearly so easy to do. I really want to dob the cheeky bastards in, although am abit scared they'll find out it was me! And don't know if I should just mind my own beeswax!

I don't think that a mn name is for life
I think it's just for Christmas ( like puppies)

That isn't true at all. The benefit wouldn't be stopped until the investigators have determined that fraud is taking place.
I have never been involved in fraud. However, whilst the investigation took place, the benefits were stopped. We were informed that the investigations were taking place and that the benefits would be stopped. So, obviously in some cases, they do stop them. It was truly wonderful managing on thin air with a disabled husband and three disabled children.

^You will know though having done the job that the actual % of fraudsters is actually very small and as said above comes no where near the amount of unclaimed benefits.

Oh well if it's only stopped until they prove fraud that's fine.^
There were enough fraudsters in the time I was there. A massive wall of shelves filled with case folders some of them so thick that they had to rubber band several folders together. People getting away with tens and in at least one case, hundreds of thousands of pounds of undeserved benefits.

I don't know anything about unclaimed benefits. Presumably some people are too proud to claim them.

Sleeepy no kisses on this site please

LineRunner
I'd heard you were Hegel's bint.
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Arf at living with Karl Marx, Linerunner

Was he redistributing wealth out of your back bedroom?

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Sorry didn't see you lot there.

I worked there 7 years ago, maybe things have changed. I have sympathy for people wrongly accused if they run into difficulties. I have absolutely no sympathy for benefit fraudsters. I was involved with interviewing many of them and they were either extremly unpleasent people, or just pitiful wretches, many of them drug addicts or alcoholics.

I wouldn't mind being Queen though. I'd be like Queenie, from Blackadder.

But I have to agree, Sandybits sans disguise is faaaaaar more royal and queenly than me. If only you knew

"There were enough fraudsters in the time I was there. A massive wall of shelves filled with case folders some of them so thick that they had to rubber band several folders together. People getting away with tens and in at least one case, hundreds of thousands of pounds of undeserved benefits.

I don't know anything about unclaimed benefits. Presumably some people are too proud to claim them."

The thing is, you wouldn't know about the people who are entitled to claim benefits but don't, what with them not claiming and all.

Josephine - well, those pitiful drug addicts and alcoholics will probably be able to turn their lives around after getting done for benefit fraud. They won't end up dying on the streets or anything.

at Josephine's logic: "I worked specifically with people committing fraud. And I knew lots of fraudsters. So a high percentage of people must be frausters."

Should we not do them for benefit fraud then, even if they were comitting benefit fraud?

My aunt's DLA was suspended while she was investigated. But it worked out ok in the end and it was re-instated.

Six weeks before she died.

A bit like obstetricians see a lot of birth problems.
Tis the nature of the job.
Josephine wasn't working with 1-2% of claimants and sadly got skewed.

I would have thought that massive fraud files held together by elastic bands were evidence of someone not doing a very good job at prosecuting fraud. Never mind the quality, feel the width.

Now that's unfair, Sleeepy- Iam almost definitely exists.

As do you.

Oh, so you know her then?
You're coming across as quite bitter Sleeepy. Is there a reason you feel the need to make these remarks?

Josephine it must have been a difficult job, no doubt about it.

It is Different to do your job well with the facts at hand ,,,than busybodying, supposing and jealously(for in the majority of cases that is where the problem stems) reporting a family for fraud.
Those people should be reported to their neighbours just as readily