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Pushed over the edge by benefit cheats!

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CheekyChoppers · 09/04/2012 15:59

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!

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catgirl1976 · 09/04/2012 17:50

You're lucky LineRunner.

Benefit cheats ate all my Lindt Bunnies that I had paid for with my hard working tax payingness. I worked 19 years to buy that Bunny, sweated good honest sweaty stuff and it just gets given to them for nothing

Absolute feckers.

LadyBeagleEyes · 09/04/2012 17:51

Reports Sue for making jokes.

catgirl1976 · 09/04/2012 17:52

<a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=chocolate+goat&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=uIy&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&biw=1440&bih=718&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=aZ_doSlx6XB1PM:&imgrefurl=www.chocolategoat.com/Dark-chocolate-goat-7oz_p_262.html&docid=lw8_L99VUuAklM&imgurl=www.chocolategoat.com/thumbnail.asp%253Ffile%253Dassets/images/dark%252520goat.jpg%2526maxx%253D300%2526maxy%253D0&w=300&h=222&ei=wxODT-vCBYP80QXZgvSaBw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=200&vpy=172&dur=326&hovh=158&hovw=206&tx=84&ty=78&sig=115471042798283773851&page=1&tbnh=146&tbnw=184&start=0&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:67" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">but what really hurt was when they took this

SuePoiblybilt · 09/04/2012 17:54

Onoes, cat, not the goat.
Did they not even leave you the wee bell from the bunny?

Originalplurker · 09/04/2012 17:54

Cat girl lol DH is looking over,

Who knew eh?

catgirl1976 · 09/04/2012 17:55

No - they used that for earings for their DCs

Savannahgirl · 09/04/2012 17:56

Oooh Lindt Bunnies! Yum! Love them, want loads...

I never buy my own - just surrepticiously nibble bits off my DC's, small enough that they don't notice - until they're all gone that is...!

Ta da !

How's that for a metaphor on this thread?! Grin

Peachy · 09/04/2012 17:58

It's true that it's not the frausters but the government becuase the Government have changed the definitins of disability to suit; may I quote- from the benefit Scrounging Scum blog- ''Because, really that's the key to this issue. And slowly, but surely now the evidence will start to emerge that these cuts are very much targeted upon 'people like me', people like the mum with a fractured spine who's lost her adapted mobility car, the mum who used to be a nurse, but now recovering from breast cancer complicated by severe osteoporosis declared fit for work, or the 1100 people who died last year after being found fit for some work and put in the Work Related Activity Group''

DS1 will not get PIP when he turns 16 even though he wills till be attending his special needs unit; I suspect he will be unlikely to have his HR Care re-issued this eyar even though he still has to be watched like a hawk due to aggression.

But at least I have a goat. Goats are good. they keep the alwns of the mansion short and stop the children getting into the Orangerie on Nanny's day off.

SleeepyHead · 09/04/2012 17:59

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Originalplurker · 09/04/2012 17:59

"oooo, theres a rat on me plasma what I'm a gonna do" ..."I'm gonna milk that rat"....

Imagine having the sterilise a small fiddly rat sized breast pump.

Anniegetyourgun · 09/04/2012 17:59

Arriving a bit late and out of breath as usual... cos I'm obese innit (but at least I'm BRITISH)... think I missed the bit where the OP explained how s/he knew the neighbour's daughters were making fraudulent claims.

Remember that thread a while ago where the OP said she had reported the scroungers and they'd been investigated and let off, so she wanted to report them again in hopes the inspectors would get it right this time because she knew they were cheating? No wonder everyone knows a benefit fraud if they prefer to believe the evidence of, er, no evidence, over the findings of the authorities who are paid to catch fraudsters.

Garliccheesechips · 09/04/2012 18:00

And you know what else, stick your hosepipe ban, I'm going to flood my vegetable patch.

Savannahgirl · 09/04/2012 18:01

Sorry - just had first Wine of the day!

Only new - feeling bold. Blush

JosephineCD · 09/04/2012 18:02

I used to work for benefit fraud. There is no way the OP can know if they were investigated or not. The fraud office takes the information, each piece of info gets points, and if doesn't get enough points, it doesn't get investigated. If you have more information, get back to them and report it, because when added to the original info (and anything that anyone else has reported) it may give the case enough points for a file to be set up and given to an investigator.

catgirl1976 · 09/04/2012 18:02

Coffee out of nose moment thanks to originalpluker Grin

Peachy · 09/04/2012 18:02

'Benefits are something that EVERYBODY is entitled to should they need them.
But they should do everything within their power to ensure that they do not need them, agreed?'

Nope because it is in my power to jump over a cliff and then save the state almost £60 a week Carer's Allowance. Course Dh would have to stop working instead to be a FT carer but hey ho......

hoops997 · 09/04/2012 18:03

Where on the benefits form is the goat box? I want my goat.....

Originalplurker · 09/04/2012 18:03

I do think it's conceivable that you do know people's finances as over time you can glean a lot from references made to forms, appointments etc.

I have been giving this some serious thought.. I think.

IamTheSandInYourVagina · 09/04/2012 18:03

Oh sleeepy, you can try and be all subtle and shit, but I get the feeling that you don't like Sue very much.

CALLme psychic (because I we doing all the formatting in one post now?)

Peachy · 09/04/2012 18:04

' "oooo, theres a rat on me plasma what I'm a gonna do" ..."I'm gonna milk that rat"....

Imagine having the sterilise a small fiddly rat sized breast pump.
'

LMFAO at that, ta Grin

ABatInBunkFive · 09/04/2012 18:04

Ok nuffs enuff now, no need to bring bees into it. Sad

Poor fucking bees scared off by all the goats and froth

Anniegetyourgun · 09/04/2012 18:06

I am working not one but two jobs at the moment so I don't qualify for any goats at all. All I have is two cats which I had to pay for myself.

I filled in a form once. I also went to the Jobcentre a lot before I got the two jobs. Still no goat tho'.

Now tell me how much I earn.

Peachy · 09/04/2012 18:06

Hoops997 it's a secret they only teach at Sink Estate School; you have to attach a piece of paper specifying the exact breed and colour of goat required. If everyone knows that though proper decent hard working people might get a goat so you know....shhhhhhhh......

(I do always love the distinction between hard working family and claimants, becuase I never know which box poor DH would land in, being both self employed AND married to a carer)

Hopefullyrecovering · 09/04/2012 18:07

I would really quite like to have a goat. Or a pair of goats. We know a lovely couple of (childless) farming friends, who casually mentioned that they had very kindly left us something in their will. I blurted out "Please, can we have the goats? I don't want the peacocks. Just the goats." That's true btw. You can keep goats tethered so that they don't roam too far. You would never need to mow your lawns again. They look delightful when they prance around. Very cute. Goats. Everyone should have one.

This is clearly a trolling thread. So why are we rising to the bait? I'd like to turn this thread into an appreciation of goats.

ABatInBunkFive · 09/04/2012 18:07

I think original that you can think you know all about their finances, but you'll still only know what you have been told which may be a whole lot different to actual facts, but who wants to let facts get in the way.

Horrid things facts, get in the way of all sorts of frothing if you let them.