@Lynsey91 not everyone gets their money suspended but do you really think it’s remotely acceptable to take the risk that it would be when the op has ZERO concrete proof that any fraud is even happening?!
Pretty shitty to want to do that to a family especially this close to Christmas. Op doesn’t even have the guts to post under usual name (which is fairly standard for these posts) she doesn’t even want other mners who know her regular username to judge her on her stance on this - likely because she KNOWS she’s in the wrong!
“What is there for them to investigate?” Because reporting gives them a reason to scrutinise EVERYTHING and that takes time because god knows they are not exactly efficient! You’d THINK common sense would dictate that they could simply check the claim on the computer, see they’re not claiming to be a single parent and dismiss the report as malicious but common sense, efficiency and competency are strangers to the dwp!
Even if the claimant is doing nothing wrong as has been said REPEATEDLY her payments could be suspended for many months until they deign to acknowledge that. How are she and her family supposed to survive in the meantime?
You so very clearly have no idea what it’s like barely managing, dreading every budget, every legislation change, every cabinet reshuffle, your stomach in knots every time the letterbox goes, being scared of “looking” “too well” to neighbours, Facebook stalkers, school-gate gossips...
It really is starting to feel like living in a police state with stasi like set ups with the state encouraging and rewarding people for informing on ordinary people just trying to get by!
An estimated 130,000 people have DIED as a result of austerity policies - we don’t have the exact figures because this govt keeps stonewalling even official bodies on FOI requests on the matter.
We have wheelchair bound and amputees dying in fucking doorways!
Children arriving at school too hungry to learn or barely even able to stay awake, teachers using their own money to buy sodding loo roll for their schools!
This IS a wealthy country but the wealth is concentrated among a select few, when my mother started working ceo pay was 3-5 times that of their lowest paid employees, now its 150 times, and others are suffering.
Pp are right re op she is directing her bitterness and ire in the wrong direction, I wonder who she works for, I wonder if she knows the salary of her employers ceo, what profits they declared last tax year, did they pay all the tax they were supposed to, could they reasonably pay better wages an actual living wage? THAT is where she should be looking
It’s an absolute disgrace
“and it really makes me sick sometimes how many people play the system and waltz into the offices done up to the nines” frankly maybe you need a different job? How someone LOOKS is meaningless with respect to what benefits they may be eligible for, it tells you nothing about their financial circumstances, their support systems, their health... Quit judging people on looks!
“I’m only repeating what my sister said” which again is just GOSSIP!
At this point I’m thinking a few posters might benefit from watching
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip(20000Americanfilm)
And considering the harm gossip can do, AND as a few pps said - if they’re gossiping TO you then chances are they’re gossiping ABOUT you too. What is the person who slated her to you saying ABOUT you op? Is she saying it to the person you’re considering reporting?
Have you mentioned ANYTHING about possible reporting to HER? Because if so, then it’s highly likely if you did report, or even if someone else did that she’ll mention it to the person you’re following and judging.
@morningsun
“know of local people claiming things they shouldn't be but you have no proof “ and that’s the point - with no proof you DON’T actually know!
@thequeef sadly helenadove has now left mn as she has had endless problems logging in and mn have been little to no help. I consider it a real loss to the site
I well remember splitting with my ex (his infidelity), going to the local council office with dd in buggy to apply for council tax single person discount. I wasn’t wearing my rings any more because of the emotions of what I was going through (I think I’d flung them at ex at some point), I was queuing with everyone else, reached the counter to be served by a woman who looked very young and I suspect had little life experience, I don’t think she was more than 20 yo, she saw the council tax application form (which was also the housing benefit application form but I wasn’t applying for that at this stage), she looked me up and down disdainfully, thrust her hand out in a way to take the form, turned her back to me and muttered to a colleague perhaps not realising I could hear “another scrounging single mum” in the most disgusted tone! Anyone knows me on here knows I’m normally quite feisty but I really was having a shit time and just didn’t have it in me to challenge her on her behaviour, which made me feel even MORE like shit!
It’s an attitude I had since come across frequently but when they are overtly rude/inappropriate I will call them out on it.
And I agree morningsun was absolute clear in what they said and how they think about claimants, again I’m willing to bet they’ve never NEEDED to be a claimant themselves.
