Benefits cheats - do you know any?

[Tachyon]

Throughout my working life I've probably worked along side folks who are up to some sort of benefits fraud. My very first job myself & the bosses brother were the only two guys officially employed, the rest of the guys went round every other Wednesday & signed on. Boss was happy, they were happy.

Currently work with a guy who is probably on around 30k a year who lives with his g/f, who he rents the house to, while he claims to live somewhere else. Think she gets a few hundred a month towards her rent which in turns pays their mortgage.

Does society find this acceptable, is it getting one over on the system, get as much as you can without getting caught? Personally I've pretty much turned a blind eye to it, taken the view that I wouldn't do it myself but if someone else wants to do it, it's their business and if they get caught then it's their own fault.

What's your thoughts? Turn a blind eye, would you ever report someone?

 

[Castiel]

I don't know anyone on benefits at the moment.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

If you tell on benefit cheats I think theres a reward if they are caught. I am sure I read that somewhere.

 

[King Damager]

I don't know anyone on benefits at the moment.

I originally thought that this was ridiculous... But thinking about it, I'm not sure I do either....

Saying that, I'm young and most people I know are at uni...

kd

 

[Destination]

Go on, report them. Saves a small amount towards the overall taxbill.
Everyone who does it plays their part.

 

[Begbie]

I did know people, at the time I never thought it was wrong. They were mostly honest people and were in desperate times, they did what they needed to do to survivie.

If it wasn't for doing so I reckon they would've been homeless/bankrupt.

 

[One]

Being a rat is one of the worst things you can be. Just like you wouldn't turn your mum in if she murdered someone.

 

[Tachyon]

If you tell on benefit cheats I think theres a reward if they are caught. I am sure I read that somewhere.

See, that's the thing, I'm not sure there is. Will double check but I was under the impression that there wasn't much incentive other than doing your bit to report anyone.

 

[Castiel]

Being a rat is one of the worst things you can be. Just like you wouldn't turn your mum in if she murdered someone.

I would turn my mother in if she murdered someone.....hell, I would set her up for one she didn't do if I could.....

 

[Adam]

Why complain if you won't report them? You are letting them get away with it and it's once again the honest hard working tax payer who gets shafted. Shame on you.

 

[Destination]

Being a rat is one of the worst things you can be. Just like you wouldn't turn your mum in if she murdered someone.

What a backward retarded attitude?
Why he hell should i a taxpayer, pay that heating gimps mortgage?
Why sholdnt someone who realises it, then report it, and save us all a load.

Maybe you missed a smiley in your reply.
Hoping you did.

 

[dowie]

Does society find this acceptable, is it getting one over on the system, get as much as you can without getting caught?

****** do, the rest of us who pay tax don't tend to.

Personally I've pretty much turned a blind eye to it, taken the view that I wouldn't do it myself but if someone else wants to do it, it's their business and if they get caught then it's their own fault.

What's your thoughts? Turn a blind eye, would you ever report someone?

Yeah I'd report a *****... can't say I know any though.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

I think the tax payer would still get shafted even if there was no benefit cheats.

 

[RomanNose]

Being a rat is one of the worst things you can be. Just like you wouldn't turn your mum in if she murdered someone.

I would.
I would tell on anyone if they have done something that I would deem morally wrong which is essentially if you harm someone else.

I haven't known any benefit thieves.

 

[Threepwood]

No I don't. But your example needs more detail. If the guy does have somewhere else to live, is paying rent and council tax and bills there then it does not matter if he spends most of his time at his girlfriends house. Those things, believe it or not are the biggest factors and not the time he spends there.

EDIT: If 'the other place' is his mums house or something like that, well, different matter.

 

[Tachyon]

Why complain if you won't report them? You are letting them get away with it and it's once again the honest hard working tax payer who gets shafted. Shame on you.

Could you show me again where I complained?

 

[panyan]

I would.
I would tell on anyone if they have done something that I would deem morally wrong.

+1

 

[dowie]

Being a rat is one of the worst things you can be. Just like you wouldn't turn your mum in if she murdered someone.

Surely the people falsely claiming benefits are the 'rats' really... - they mostly live in the gutter and scavenge off others... rat seems quite appropriate.

 

[ElliorR]

Being a rat is one of the worst things you can be. Just like you wouldn't turn your mum in if she murdered someone.

So you wouldn't report a paedophile you knew was fiddling with kids?

 

[AGD]

If they are stealing money through benefit fraud then you should report them. Not for a reward, but because they are stealing your and everyone else's money!!! And they're not even poor (earning more money than me!)