More than 85% of public tip offs on benefit 'frauds' are false

[max 13]

Don't be surprised - some members on here wouldn't report known criminals or crimes been carried out.

 

How true, I remember some time ago a poster asserted that everybody in his pub was a convicted criminal and had done time. In those circumstances, I'd be reluctant to report a neighbour for anything.

[Mr Bloke 1,445]

How true, I remember some time ago a poster asserted that everybody in his pub was a convicted criminal and had done time. In those circumstances, I'd be reluctant to report a neighbour for anything.

In those circumstances I'd find another pub!

[sutty27 10]

Would anyone shop their neighbour? I wouldn't it's terrible. Live and let live and mind your own. You can't possibly no everything about someone's circumstances.

 

Would you also ignore a shop lifter, a purse snatcher, a granny basher, a car thief, ect. ect. ect. ?

[*_ash_* 88]

why should i care about someone elses tenancy?

 

a tenancy is a contract between two people

 

Try answering the law bit then

 

So you'd move rather than report a neighbour who you knew where breaking the law?*

 

 

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(*I put tenancy in brackets herbal, because I'm not sure whether living in a council house when you aren't registered there is breaking the law)

Edited March 1, 2016 by *_ash_*

[herbalharry 10]

Try answering the law bit then

 

 

 

 

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(*I put tenancy in brackets herbal, because I'm not sure whether living in a council house when you aren't registered there is breaking the law)

 

Benefit thievesl that's the title of the thread.

 

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Would you also ignore a shop lifter, a purse snatcher, a granny basher, a car thief, ect. ect. ect. ?

 

As above stay on topic. Don't be daft.

[*_ash_* 88]

Benefit thievesl that's the title of the thread.

 

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As above stay on topic. Don't be daft.

 

 

It's like getting blood out of a stone (to use the common phrase)

[herbalharry 10]

It's like getting blood out of a stone (to use the common phrase)

 

It's a thread about benefit fraud that's why.

[sutty27 10]

Benefit thievesl that's the title of the thread.

 

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As above stay on topic. Don't be daft.

 

Which is a crime, so if you are happy to ignore that crime I can only assume you would be happy to ignore other crimes.

[herbalharry 10]

Which is a crime, so if you are happy to ignore that crime I can only assume you would be happy to ignore other crimes.

 

You know what they say about assumption

[sutty27 10]

You know what they say about assumption

 

Yes, sometimes ones assumptions are correct.

[herbalharry 10]

Yes, sometimes ones assumptions are correct.

 

saying someone will eat chocolate cos they eat bananas is daft.

 

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turns a blind eye to littering = turns a blind eye to serious theft.

monkey logic

[Mister M 1,624]

Interesting debate from PMQs today:

 

Benefits fraud costs the government £1.3bn a year, according to official statistics, while the gap between tax owed and tax paid is put at £34bn a year by officials

 

YET:

 

The government confirmed on Wednesday that the ranks of DWP benefits investigators have swelled to 3,700 – a higher number than the one quoted by Robertson, and up from 2,600 in February last year.

That compares with 700 people who work at HM Revenue and Customs in the two units whose job it is to investigate the wealthiest 500,000 people living in the UK.

 

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/13/benefit-or-tax-evasion-row-over-the-tories-targets