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Cheating Pensioners Will Be Forced To Sell Their House....
....to repay the taxpayers says Iain Duncan Smith.
// Welfare cheats will be forced to sell their homes and pay higher fines to reimburse taxpayers for the money they have wrongly claimed, under plans to tackle benefit fraud.
Hundreds of thousands of pensioners who fail to declare their full earnings from private pension schemes will also be targeted as fraud investigators trawl through HM Revenue & Customs records.
:: Existing claimants will be cross-checked against HMRC records to catch pensioners who are receiving extra income than they have declared from private schemes, while also claiming pension credit, a means-tested benefit.
Officials estimate that fraud by pensioners failing to declare their full income cost taxpayers £170 million last year, up from £140 million in 2012.
Officials expect to find 300,000 pensioners and workers who are claiming benefits to which they are not entitled because they have not declared their full income. The system will be tried out this month.
The plans form part of a major campaign from ministers this week to publicise reforms to the welfare system, which the Conservatives regard as among their most popular, vote-winning policies. //
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A vote winning policy - What's not to like?
// Welfare cheats will be forced to sell their homes and pay higher fines to reimburse taxpayers for the money they have wrongly claimed, under plans to tackle benefit fraud.
Hundreds of thousands of pensioners who fail to declare their full earnings from private pension schemes will also be targeted as fraud investigators trawl through HM Revenue & Customs records.
:: Existing claimants will be cross-checked against HMRC records to catch pensioners who are receiving extra income than they have declared from private schemes, while also claiming pension credit, a means-tested benefit.
Officials estimate that fraud by pensioners failing to declare their full income cost taxpayers £170 million last year, up from £140 million in 2012.
Officials expect to find 300,000 pensioners and workers who are claiming benefits to which they are not entitled because they have not declared their full income. The system will be tried out this month.
The plans form part of a major campaign from ministers this week to publicise reforms to the welfare system, which the Conservatives regard as among their most popular, vote-winning policies. //
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A vote winning policy - What's not to like?
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Oh dear I D Smith, Voicing his opinion again. This is the man who has just wasted 40 million of tax payers money on a computer system that does not work.And as Grumpy 01 Posted. About the Miller fiddle . The Con Party Chairman Grant Shapps ,Says its time to draw a line under the Maria Miller Case .Get your own Party in order first Smith .
// The Daily Telegraph reported in December 2012 that Miller had claimed more than £90,000 in mortgage interest and other costs for the property in which her parents lived even though parliamentary rules said a second home must be for the exclusive use of MPs. //
Can Ms Millers parents expect a visit from IDS? Probably not.
Can Ms Millers parents expect a visit from IDS? Probably not.
yes, pensioners being natural Tory voters as they pine for the lost Britain of their youth, may take umbrage when IDS's pension police come knocking at the door. Especially if they've done nothing wrong.
Just getting Amazon to pay tax would cover half the loss from pensioners
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Just getting Amazon to pay tax would cover half the loss from pensioners
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Number Crunching:
£6,000. The the maximum amount pensioners can have in savings before
they are penalsed how much savings credit they get (£18 a week). Above that figure, entitlement is reduced at the rate of £1 a week for every £500 of savings.
£6,000. Well £5,800, the amount Maria Miller has volunteered to repay of the £90,000 she fraudulently claimed.
£6,000. The the maximum amount pensioners can have in savings before
they are penalsed how much savings credit they get (£18 a week). Above that figure, entitlement is reduced at the rate of £1 a week for every £500 of savings.
£6,000. Well £5,800, the amount Maria Miller has volunteered to repay of the £90,000 she fraudulently claimed.
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