Hi,
I think I've been v unreasonable when it comes to a family I no.
It all started out with this couple moving from Portugal with their daughter, and to begin with we really liked them.
Then it came to the point where we were sorting out all of their benefit forms for them (they signed them obviously-and I only wrote the information they gave me)
He was born in Portugal, she wasn't so they then started talking about getting married so she could stay. No she didn't want benefits she wanted to work. They would stay in UK.
So They get married, and benefits are granted to them (full housing benefit for 1 bed house, council tax paid, working tax, child tax and child benefit) on top of his wages, then I'm told she gets around ??500 a month from her mother.
So I just say, make sure everyone knows so you don't get into trouble.
From then on she talks about how she misses home.
In the meantime I've pieced together that they came here, talked of getting married, got benefits and then seem to want to go home and seriously distanced myself from them. School breaks up, and they go on holiday. I think nothing just that they've gone on holiday. The day before the kids go back to school she texts to say she's not coming back till October, if ever but mentions she's fine cos the benefits are still going into her account and she is having fun whilst at home.
It made me so angry, she gets full tax credits for her daughter and child benefit and she's not even living here!!!! That money isn't to be spent living the life of Riley in another European country!
And the bloody husband! Now he's got himself moved up in the daughters bedroom, and he's got different women round every night, and loves to sit in the garden talking about how he pays no rent cos housing benefit despite him working!
When we live in the same area and there's us, we both work, I'm disabled so I can't do too much, but we're both in work and were struggling to pay bills without the benefits that they get- and they're bloody better off than we are!!
I called the benefit fraud hotline, cos its not bloody right. Now I feel really guilty.