To report my ex for benefit fraud?

[Grandadwasthatyou]

He is receiving universal credit despite having had a large amount of money paid into his bank account.
Part of me thinks why should he get away with it and another part just to mind my own business.

How do you know this?

Yes.

I know it because he got a settlement from our divorce!

How much has he got? Have you bought him out of a house?

How large an amount of money? If he can tell them the money is to pay off debt or a deposit on rental / House they will not class it as savings. Why would you prevent him receiving benefits?

Report.
Why should he get away with it?
It's theft.

How do you know he is still receiving UC? He could have called and updated DWP when the money came into his account.

Too, how to you know it’s more than his debts? Especially divorce lawyer debts....

I "advised " him that he would need to inform the DWP he has this money. He said they will never find out, inferring that if they did he would know it had been me who had informed. I know this could make life difficult for me where the dc are concerned.

You are going to get an overwhelming number of people telling you to mind your own business. But I say dob them in. It's unfair on those that are doing the right thing.

I've dobbed someone in, many years ago, and I've never regretted it.

He told me himself that he wasn't going to report it. I had to buy him out of the house, get a new mortgage and start all over again so yes I do feel bitter.
He has bough an Apple Watch, Apple phone and a new car and still has well over the £16000 allowed in savings. No outgoings as lives rent free with his mother. He said he will just transfer it into his mother's account and if found out will say he was paying her back for a loan. All lies.

Me personally I would mind my own business. Keep your own side of the street clean and don't mind what someone else does as it does not directly effect you. That's just my personal opinion.

You can report anonymously online. This kind of thing disgusts me.

Absolutely I have no time for benefit cheats in anyway.

@sailingfree ..that is my thinking but I am still bitter. I am now back in the same position as I was 15 years ago mortgage wise.

I'd report all benefit fraud, it's theft and affects all of us who pay taxes! It also means less money in the pot for those genuine claimants who are entitled to support.

Don't moan about our underfunded NHS, Schools, Mental Health Support etc if you , by your silence, support taxes being misused through fraud.

You will be minding your own business by reporting fraud, because it is your business as well as everybody else's.

Im sure I read somewhere that the DWP are provided with lists from the banks of people who have suddenly had large sums paid into their accounts and can cross check on their computers if any of these match with people receiving benefits. Don't know how true this is.

@Grandadwasthatyou I understand that you feel like that I am sorry that you are in this situation. If you do tell on him I don't know if you will feel good for long if it will be worth it. If he hasn't treated you right he will gets what's coming to him anyway life has a funny way of doing that to people.

Does he pay you maintenance for your dc op? Not sure how maintenance works with universal credit, does he pay a discounted amount due to his eligibility for UC? If he wasn't eligible for universal credit due to his lump sum, would he have to pay you more than he does?

No maintenance as dc aren't his although to all intents and purposes he is their Dad as was with me since they were little. So nothing.

If he doesn't pay any rent to his mum and isn't ill or disabled he will only be getting Uc of £409 a month which is not a lot to live on. Of course that doesn't make fraud ok but just to put things into perspective.

That is the amount he told me he was getting. But why should he be when he's had over £30k to play with?

There is a certain time frame they disregard it for to give him time to buy a new house etc then they dock his UC

You will be minding your own business by reporting fraud, because it is your business as well as everybody else's

This ^^

Posts like the OP's always generate a lot of "Look away" responses, rapidly followed by Evil Tax Dodging Big Business whataboutery

Both are theft. Report it.

He won't be buying a house even though his settlement would have been a decent deposit as yet again he has found himself without a job due to him not being able to keep his mouth shut. ( one of the reasons for divorce! ) So if he looks to rent how much allowance do you think DWP would give him if for example he said he was going to pay rent a year upfront?

If he got it from a house sale then is it not discounted for 1 year? It used to be before UC, it may still be. If that's the case then he isn't committing benefit fraud. So before reporting him look up the rules first. I'm all for reporting benefit cheats but, if he's not actually breaking the rules, you'll just be wasting the DWP's time and that costs taxpayers money.