Have had to namechange for this one. I'm so cross I'm shaking and need a little advice! This may not be the right area for this post but I need some replies.
Right, my mate got his GF pregnant. She used the pregnancy to keep him with her despite him begging her for an abortion (classy guy eh?) and telling her he wasn't ready to be a dad. When the child was just a few months old decided neither of them wanted the child and sent them to my mate's mum to live. Mates mum struggles as it is, with money and now a baby. I know his mum and she's a total love will do anything for anyone, but she's a doormat. They refuse to pay a penny towards their child, see them or do any kind of child care. The poor child knows mummy and daddy don't want them. Mates mum has been claiming child allowance, and has just found she is eligable for a further payment in child tax and working tax. She filled in the forms and was told there was an "anomoly" and had to go for a security check. Turns out that "someone" is already claiming for this child. Yup, it's the birth mother. She and my friend both claimed they weren't recieving any money for the child that lives with my mates mum but it turns out they've been claiming the whole time and never gave his mum a penny.
I'm sickened by my mate (well, mate no longer). How could he do this to his kind hearted mother? They claim they need the money but having seen their lifestyle they really don't. Neither of them work through choice.
Do I a) keep well out and let them sort it out, b) go straight to income fraud and dob them in, or c) give my ex-friend one chance to alter the payments himself and just threaten to go to fraud?
Sorry for being vague, don't want to be outed.