Is it ever OK to report anyone?

[PassingStranger]

Following on from the TV licence thread is it ever OK to report for benefit fraud, car tax, TV licence, etc or does it always come back and bit you on the bum?

Would you be scared to do it?

Nowhere in my post, which I stated that it was self inflicted did I suggest that anyone was committing benifit fraud...
Or anything about holidays...

Typical of a handful of MN's
you yourself have every right to turn an observation into something else, write what you will, but you have absolutely no right to say it's what I'm suggesting or even thinking especially when I haven't.

"Grassing" is what happens in school playgrounds!

Well then you clearly did not read the posts I was replying to then because you have replied to something without the context of the post you have replied to which was relevant to the conversation

@Crumpleton but how many threads have there been on MN where an OP has been terrified to go out shopping or for a meal whilst off sick, for fear of being reported? Not long ago there was one where OP was legitimately off sick but was seen on the sidelines of a football match where their DC was playing, was reported by a 'colleague' and there was a whole stressful investigation. And a lot of posters sided with the employer.

The fact is that if you are ill and on benefits in the UK, you are subject to the scrutiny of malicious curtain twitchers and the DWP will come down on you like a tonne of bricks if there's a report.

You wouldn't be scared of having your partner stay at your house though if you didn't live in a culture where people are reporting people they suspect of benefit fraud when they might not even be committing benefit fraud.

It's this idea that it's acceptable to be reporting on people in this way that means you are too worried to do something you are literally allowed to do.

Personally I'd rather live in a society where people don't try and shit on each other by reporting people and therefore people on benefits don't have to worry in this way about being reported for no reason.

How do your neighbors know you are on benefits? Mine don't even know my name!

I'm more confused at why people seen to broadcast their financial situations. Its no one else's business

I never speak to them, so no idea. Bu I have heard them talk about me and benefits so they must just assume.