Benefit fraud

[Firemanswife]

I've recently become aware (via a court case with my ex wife about finances) that she is claiming universal credit, however looking into this, it seems that this may have been applied for fraudulently, due to the amount of spousal maintenance paid and that this was clearly not declared (this was court ordered by amount)

I pay spousal and child maintenance and have done for the last 15 years for our 4 children and to maintain her 'standard of living'
My question is - if I was to report her for benefit fraud, would I be able to submit the bank statements or would this be illegal?
Thanks
FMW

Because you dint know. Unless you’re happy To believe the OP as the gospel.
CM isn’t taken into account in UC claim so there is that…..

But loads of other people are condoning that he ignores it.

it doesn’t matter why he wants to do it - benefit fraud is fraud.

and equally he hasn’t said why he wants to do it - no one actually knows that it’s his kids that are going to be missing out.

if he had come on here as a woman stating they were aware of a friend doing this they’d be getting told something totally different.

But he pays SM too which is unusual and is taken into consideration for UC

Not many people get SM and it's rarely just pennies

Wow. The amount of people having a go at the OP for asking if he should do the right thing is so double-standard. When there are posts about crime committed by a man, you all swarm on about reporting it. Why is this different?? Why should she be given a chance to stop committing fraud and theft without consequence?

The amount of daily moans on here about the broken NHS, education system, housing demand, special needs support, social care services, etc (I could go on!) yet you’ll happily jump down the throat of a man for questioning if he should report a fraudulent claim where the money could be put to better use? Make it make sense..?

Well he doesn’t actually no that she’s committing benefit fraud for one thing. HTH.

** Because you dint know. Unless you’re happy To believe the OP as the gospel.
CM isn’t taken into account in UC claim so there is that…..**

I think it's fairly standard to take an op at face value. No idea why so many have decided not to on this one. He never said CM was, but SM is, which is his point. That he knows it hasn't been declared. That's fraud. And surely all reports are only 'potential' in the first instance.

Exactly.

The double standards.

If the roles were reversed, the same lot would have advised the op to report him.

If she's done nothing wrong then everything is fine

If she has then she deserves to be caught

She’d have still gone through the process of proving her innocence and would likely work out it’s the ex who reported her. It wouldn’t be great for relations

@ToKittyornottoKitty doesn't sound like relations are great any way

If she's innocent it will be easy to price - her bank statements will show money coming in.

He can show payments to her going from his account too

Enhanced UC reviews aren’t known for being easy.

I think you are a lier. How do you know how the breakdown of her universal credit application? Unless you are spying on her and got spyware installed.
She might have not got all her payments and universal credit are paying her arrears. That might be why the money looks more than she is entitled to. Just don't waste fraud department time with nonsense.
Universal credit have the power to look into her bank account should they need to.

Doubt OP will be back.

So you divorced 15 years ago and have been paying maintenance ever since. Your four children must all have been very young at the time and you still have ongoing court proceedings about financial arrangements.

Sounds like there is a lot of ongoing bitterness. If you believe fraud is being committed then report it.