Have you ever reported someone for benefit fraud?

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Just that really.

Also, if someone had been reported anonymously, would they know SOMEONE had reported them or do the DWP just say that they had investigated?

If the reported individual is told that SOMEONE has reported them, they may be able to narrow the suspects down easily, by who knows their financial situation or, worse still, may acuse family members who did not report them.

I can't belive how many people are nosey * on here hows about get a life and stop putting your nose in other peoples business do any of youse actually know what its like on benefits and I'm a women and I know for single men universal credit 190 pound to last a month when you've lost your job because they don't pay you for the first month and force you to take a loan... I've seen what state people get in because of this and how suicidal they feel use wanna be ashamed.. yea don't get me wrong if you was working full time had a big mansion with a swimming pool holieays then fair enough you shouldn't be getting the money but people who live in a shitty council house with nothing barley affording to pay for the car they do have or food or for their kids presents or school stuff youse should be ashamed you only live once and youse wanna make that person suffer for what,, they have 50 years of life averaging and you want to take how many years away from them suffering n affect their children its a disgrace life is to short for scumbags like youse maybe they could have a mental illness you should never jump to conclusions and you should have something better to do with your short arse 60 years.minimum !

nah, i couldn’t be arsed to be honest.

i’ve reported someone to social services. they did it back to me some months later.

No. My neighbour claims to live alone and gets full housing benefit but has 2 lodgers that work and pay her rent. She said she is being investigated as someone told them one of thems her partner. He is but wasn't me that told.

I can’t believe this 2 year old zombie thread got resurrected in the small hours of the morning

my mother has been falsely accused of claiming benefits for my disabled sister over 30 times over the last 3 years since my biological father come back into my disabled sisters life after a 30+ year absence in her life, this man terrorised us as a family including breaking constant injunctions and beating up my mother and other sister on a regular basis, in court he told the judge he didn't want anything to-do with his 3 kids and told the judge SHE CAN LOOK AFTER THEM AS THATS HER JOB, he also stated that my sister was an ugly spastic due to my mums d.n.a so his not the nicest of men. this man also smashed up our cars when we was younger and Evan cut the brakes on our family car, this man tried to drive into a brick wall with all of us in the car and that's the small things his done as i dont want to put his worst crimes on here, since this man popped back into my sisters life he has used my disabled sisters lack of capacity to upset the family and it seems there is nothing we can do to stop this man from constantly reporting my mother. the social workers all agree that this man has a vendetta against us but we have to go through the investigations every time. the keeps making out we are buying cars and holidays with this money with no evidence to back this up. does anyone have any advice on how we can finally stop this man/thing from terrorising our family.

My sister has been falsely reported 4 times in 3 years, she’s a young disabled woman. They have been actually very nice about it. They explained after the first that the report will be centralised and has to be investigated. They instead come to her flat to sign it off, instead of making her travel and they gave her a number to ring so they can come in a day or two. The first time I explained the impact waiting weeks for an appointment had on her mental health. They don’t question her, they talk to me to clarify a few big things (eg she hasn’t acquired savings) then fill most of it in sitting there.
We’ve actually dealt with really decent people operating in a horrible system. They can see her learning difficulties are clear and her life is simple, they have been respectful.
The harassment from neighbours on the other hand is horrible

This is MN OP. Everyone is against reporting benefit fraud here. Because benefits claimants are the salt of the earth, who are allowed to defraud the system. Because they are the not bankers….apparently. The real reason is that people so vehemently against it are on the rob themselves. MN is full of them.

This comment could only have been written pre-2020.

Because everyone was happy to report their neighbour for taking the second walk of the day or having a friend around their house in 1984, sorry 1984.

I thought this, too.

It's actually interesting to see this thread revived. I wonder what the responses would be today

I need a translator to actually decipher and read this message but the general jist seems to be you are ok with benefit fraud. You sound utterly awful and classless

If you knew how many times I've heard people saying that someone is committing benefit fraud because they work and claim PIP.... Claiming PIP whilst working is allowed! Never ceases to amaze me the number of people that don't know this.

Doing a couple of shifts cash in hand isn't the same as having a second property though is it

No. If you're good enough friends with someone to know their circumstances you shouldn't be grassing them up when those circumstances are bad enough that they need to claim benefits (because why would someone go to all that trouble if they didn't need the money?). And if you don't know the full story keep your beak out, it's none of your business. I bet all the people who report their friends and neighbours to DWP were right snitches at school.

Please don't report people because you never know their situation, even when you think you do. Once I was on UC and I was not even attempting to find a job, not because I didn't want to work, but because I was severely depressed. If someone reported me it would have ruined my life when I was already at rock bottom.

Yes. The CMS said it was the only possible way I’d have a cats chance in hell of getting the money I’m due. My ex-husband is 100% working, I’ve seen him, my son has seen him and I’ve seen pictures of him on FB in his uniform. However, HMRC say he’s not working. He’s definitely getting benefits as he’s paying off other debts and I want my money. He owes me thousands.