Re: Benefits Fraud

[Anchorman]

A site paying homage to those who obeyed the rules to the letter. Pity they're dead, really. https://calumslist.org/2-2/

[jeremyp]

A site paying homage to those who obeyed the rules to the letter. Pity they're dead, really. https://calumslist.org/2-2/

There is no doubt that there are very serious problems with the benefits system.

However there is also no doubt that some people cheating the benefits system are not in desperate straits like the people on your list. The same applies to the tax system. These people are actually harming the people who are entitled to the money and really need it because it isn't there to be spent on them.

[Robbie]

A couple of weeks ago in the Bromley Times (Humph probably read it), I no longer have the paper so am repeating from memory, there was a report of a man who claimed for all sorts because - he said - he lost home, wife and family in the Grenfell fire;  he was housed in Bromley.  Turned out he had no-one in the fire!

Certainly people like him have to be punished for cashing in fraudulently on the back of other people's misery.

What we were talking about on here was mainly about people doing small cash jobs - like cleaning or child minding - as well as claiming benefit.  Not in same category tho' take your points about still being illegal and we all draw the line in different places.

Also the DLA changed to PIP and many genuine people have been turned down for PIP, causing extreme hardship.

I understand floo whom I believe doesn't have anything directly to do with people on benefit so relies on what she reads in media.  If she had a job that brought her into contact with 'poor' people she would feel differently.

[Nearly Sane]

This is the person you are referring to, I think, Robbie.


http://news.met.police.uk/news/man-jailed-for-fraud-after-grenfell-tower-fire-293943

[Rhiannon]

There is no doubt that there are very serious problems with the benefits system.

However there is also no doubt that some people cheating the benefits system are not in desperate straits like the people on your list. The same applies to the tax system. These people are actually harming the people who are entitled to the money and really need it because it isn't there to be spent on them.

But they are in the minority - some 1% of claimants or thereabouts.

[Robbie]

Thank you NS.

[Humph Warden Bennett]

A couple of weeks ago in the Bromley Times (Humph probably read it), I no longer have the paper so am repeating from memory, there was a report of a man who claimed for all sorts because - he said - he lost home, wife and family in the Grenfell fire;  he was housed in Bromley.  Turned out he had no-one in the fire!

Certainly people like him have to be punished for cashing in fraudulently on the back of other people's misery.

What we were talking about on here was mainly about people doing small cash jobs - like cleaning or child minding - as well as claiming benefit.  Not in same category tho' take your points about still being illegal and we all draw the line in different places.

Also the DLA changed to PIP and many genuine people have been turned down for PIP, causing extreme hardship.

I understand floo whom I believe doesn't have anything directly to do with people on benefit so relies on what she reads in media.  If she had a job that brought her into contact with 'poor' people she would feel differently.

The man concerned man lived in Beckenham, not Bromley.

As for Floo, she seems to make up her mind instantly as to who is a goodie or a baddie, and posts accordingly.

[Robbie]

Part of Beckenham is in Bromley, London Borough, the rest in Lewisham. Part of Downham is in Bromley, London Borough & part in Lewisham (other thread).

[Humph Warden Bennett]

Part of Beckenham is in Bromley, London Borough, the rest in Lewisham. Part of Downham is in Bromley, London Borough & part in Lewisham (other thread).

Don't try to wind me up.

Beckenham is a separate town from Bromley.

Ask anybody who lives there.

[Robbie]

I do know people who live there thank you, always have. Aunt and Uncle, now deceased, lived in Clockhouse Road. Sloane Hospital is there. Bowie lived in Foxgrove Road for a time but the houses there have been pulled down. Beckenham is very nice unless you stray into the Penge end where it becomes dodgy (with character).