to think this DLA claim must be fradulent

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Next door neighbour asked me yesterday if she could put me down as the second driver on her new car.

Had no idea what she was talking about so she whipped out a Ford brochure and informed me that she is getting a new Meriva and needs to put someone down as a second driver, but her Mum lives 6 miles away.

Still not got to the bottom of why she needs a second driver, but she did tell me that she's entitled to the car because she's got bad knees, in fact she says she has no knee caps at all!

Neighbour and I attend a slimming class together, and she needs to lose several stone, (which can't be helping her knees) but her weight doesn't stop her walking with me, 6-7 miles, up and down hills, with a pushchair, 3 times a week, and attending a Zumba class with me. Nor does it stop her having regular stalls at bootfairs from 6am til 2pm on Sundays.

Surely if she can manage all that, she shouldn't be entitled to a new car for her 'disability' when so many other, genuinely disabled people struggle to get any help at all? She doesn't even use her current car very often, she walks everywhere!

You don't see the need but I do.

We'll have to agree to disagree.

Not that I do the goat thing anyway, I missed that day on MN.

The Op's made it very clear what they think - 'Surely if she can manage all that, she shouldn't be entitled to a new car for her 'disability' when so many other, genuinely disabled people struggle to get any help at all?'

YY usual.

It must be fucking SOUL destroying to have to read yet another thread full of this sort of shit.

And even when stats are posted and real people post that they have terrible problems getting their money, they still chuff on about other posters being mean and sarcastic.

Boo fucking Hoo.

Usual - why do you have to defend yourself in the first place? To a bunch of strangers on the internet?

If you have DLA, that is your own business, not that of anyone else, and unless you tell people you have it, nobody would know.

I'm sure we're all very sorry we derailed the OP's thread about how her imaginary neighbour doesn't deserve DLA.

[[http://danielzimnikovlocal.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/cat-in-the-car-2.jpg Looking out for the DWP Fraud Squad

It's really hard to get DLA, if someone has it I imagine it's because they need it, it's not like you just fill in a form and get it!

Why shouldn't she change her car if her current one is only 3 years old?

My car is not 3 years old until the end of Oct, but DH has bought me a new one which we are picking up on Saturday.

My sister was born with Spina Bifida, and has been in a wheelchair all her life... and still the DLA people hound her with forms to prove her disability. She has also had her personal assistant hours cut down because they believe she is independent enough not to need it as much. It's disgusting... and she is someone who the ignorant normal public regard as 'properly disabled... there really is no hope :(

I really do feel your pain. I just think the anger is being directed the wrong way perhaps.

I didnt say you were mean or sarcastic shirley-I merely said I found the "joke" a bit tedious....

I dont understand why you have a problem grasping that benefit fraud does happen. I dont have a problem with people who are in genuine need getting all they are entitled too-thats what the welfare state is for after all.

As to the poster who suggested I report the family members-the authorities know exactly what they are up too! I am talking about families where 3 generations have never worked!! They are now pretty much unemployable too so it would be more hassle than its worth for the jobcentre to try and get them into employment...

The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'fact'.

Try again

Looking out for the DWP Fraud Squad

and the anger is being directed at the wrong people*

But usual - this is not RL. Why would you let it get to you that you feel shit? Just press the hide button.

These threads will come round and round. They never go away. I cannot understand the anger behind some of the posters. Yes, it may have been difficult to get DLA or whatever, but if someone is reported and investigated, if they are genuine, then it will be found they are genuine. If they are filmed scuba diving and break dancing, then clearly they are being fraudulent. No matter whether they then have a day when they can't move and have to stay in bed. I would have to stay in bed the next day if I did either of those!

That's not exactly true Dogs, some people make it their business to find things out about other people.

My Mum gets HRM and one of her neighbors asked anyone who would listen if her new car was a mobility motor.

Thankfully her other neighbors were nice enough to let my mum know that she was snooping and wasn't being very pleasant.

Mum has a"visible disability" yet this horrible person still went around bitching that she had the cheek to be out painting her fence one weekend.

People can be very underhanded when they are jealous and spiteful.

Firstly Ford do NOT have a Meriva and 2ndly smarties at a party

Threads like this are always shit, and those of us who receive DLA always feel like we have to justify ourselves.

Because we are somebodies neighbour/cousin/friend. Somebody somewhere will be doing what the OP is doing right now and trying to come up with all the reasons that we don't deserve DLA. And they will bitch about us to their friends and tell them how we are scammers, when in fact we would pay back every penny in blood if it meant that we could live a normal life.

see this? that's bollocks that is.

that's why people get really angry at shit threads like this

Quotes from OP:

Where in my op did I say I was going to report her? I have no understanding of DLA and am concerned that I have been asked to put my name to something I find a bit odd.

and

I was hoping for someone a bit more constructive to come along, that could advise me whether or not it is likely to be a fraudulent claim, before I made the tricky choice of reporting her or fecking off.

Although to be fair, it wasn't in her first post she mentioned reporting, it was in the second. not sure that really warrants the denials though?

I have no problem grasping that benefit fraud happens.

I am well aware that the DLA fraud rate, by the DWP's own figures, is 0.5%.