Ive Just shopped someone for benefit fraud, do I deserve to burn in hell.

[Gulitladen]

I feel quite bad.

This person is an acquaintance, She was a single parent for a few months, then she met someone who pretty much moved in, he was paying her bills for her and moved in properly earlier this year.

She has always worked full time with a salary of around 20k.

She seems to have an awful lot of money, and, as a single parent myself, I couldnt quite work it out. However, I have seen her tax credits renewal form as she didnt understand something and asked me to have a look for her, and shes claiming to be a lone parent, working 16.3 hours a week, earning 12k a year less than she actually is.

She is also claiming housing benefit as a single parent.

So, I have completed the DWP form and sent it off. I couldnt help it, it makes me see red.

But I now feel terrible.

So, do you think the benefits system shouldn't exist, boudicca? Genuine question, not goading!

Also...can I ask if you think things would've been different if, for example, you had a baby/were pregnant, or had some kind of disability at 17?

yes, and you would be entitled to help and i dont think for a second anyone is saying otherwise.

But thats not whats happening at all here, is a very different situation.

Or had difficulty finding a job, because that happens an awful lot too, y'know. Would you've willingly starved?

I'd like to tap into this magical stream of housing sprinkled upon the young and unemployed, please. I didn't know it existed. I want me a piece of that pie.

Hence why I made a point of saying, whilst I am a fit able bodied person I choose to earn my keep.

The benefit system is for the disabled and those in genuine need not a lifestyle which it has become for the minority.

I have no qualms or issues with the welfare being used for it's genuine purpose, and should I ever need it (touch wood I won't) I would expect after paying in thousands to get something back, for support and help.

No, that's the thing, the boy who worked for my husband had a band who had an open Facebook page to promote themselves. How stupid can you be! I do to have my husbands employees on Facebook.

It is sneaky, I know. It really upset me though, he let my husband down at some really crucial times. The rest of the team were doing overtime, I barely saw my husband, he'd be working after I'd gone to bed and I knew the rock star was skiving off... That felt so personal

It is entirely possible to be in a band and still be disabled by pain or on the sick.

Ever heard of Ian Dury?

What was the 'rock star' employed as by your husband, happy?

You can draw something you believe is untoward to your husband's attention without bragging that it made you feel like a hero. That is just reveling in causing people misery.

Yep they hand out houses like sweets to us young 'uns these days.

I know, Moomin, I've got 3 already.

Bodecia. What exactly are you suggesting that those who are unemployed don't claim benefits and let their children starve because of smug closed minded people like yourself
I have worked since I was 16 in the same job and I count myself as ridiculously lucky to have never faced unemplyment but I'D don't walk around with a smug attitude like someone else I might mention and you know why because The good old karma hates smugness with a vengence.
I have a modest sum of money saved so that if IT ever do come out of work IN don't have to claim and to be honest it's because of people like yourself that seem to look dowsn on the needy, but it's abad day when I wouldn't apply for my own money thatl have paid through my taxes x

Boudica I was on out of work benefits for a couple of years when my eldest two were babies.

I wasn't trapped. I needed the support for a while. It was crap on benefits.

I get very at people posting how proud they are that they have never resorted to benefits.

Oh yes and when my DD got cancer and I had to give up my job I had to go on carers allowance for a while and IB after she died for a few months.

Don't ever think you are immune from illness, disability and bereavement.

Far from being 'trapped' me and OH have managed to rack up nearly 60 years of tax paying between us.

I had three, but they gave me an extra one when I had my baby. Y'know, teenage mums get so many handouts. Which is why I can't claim housing benefit.

Stevie Wonder
Rick Allen
Robert Wyatt
Django Reinhardt
Ray Charles

Not to mention the ones with MH issues and hidden disabilities.

Blah blah blah....woe is me.

I don't care how you get your money, I choose to get mine by working. If you want to get yours by claiming crack on, but don't lie to get more.

Where is anyone lying to get more money on this thread?

Who's lying to get more money? And who has suggested they're happy to get money by claiming?

That was the original point of the entire thread.....reporting someone for committing possible benefit fraud I.e lying to possibly get more money.

What, Basgetti said.

No not it's self directed towards myself.

Homeless at 17 blah blah blah

Bullshit. The whole post was an attack on those who claim, with a snidey warning not to cheat more thrown in for good measure.

Yeah ok.

If you read my previous posts you would know that I said those with genuine need of the benefit system should get it.so the disabled, the elderly etc.

My nark is with people who have no genuine need receiving it, but then it's up to them how they want to live isn't it, and how they want to get their money.

I hope you don't claim child benefit, CTC or WTC for your child, Boudica.

I hope you use those savings to get you through maternity leave, otherwise you might not get your medal.