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Bounty to trap Benefit Cheats
'We will not shrug and let them get away with this any longer' David Cameron on the £52b lost every year. Best news of the day..
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The department of Work and Pensions already employ a vast army to investigate Benefit fraud. While announcing cuts at DWP, Cameron has effectively privatised their work by handing it to Experian (Did this go out to tender?).
Not surprising to learn that Dominic Grieve MP is a shareholder of Experian.
http://news.bbc.co.uk...es/profiles/25630.stm
Not surprising to learn that Dominic Grieve MP is a shareholder of Experian.
http://news.bbc.co.uk...es/profiles/25630.stm
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When I go to pay the dentist. I'm asked " Do you receive any benefits ? " When I say no she then tells me how much I have to pay. On one occasion she thought I said yes and she said
" Oh then you don't have to pay for any of these services and she held up a great big list of exempt items. So the true value of being on benefit is far greater than the basic benefit itself.
In addition to that as soon as you are on one benefit it opens the door to many others.
A neighbour of mine was unemployed ( since the age of 52 ), moved into an expensive apartment once he was told he could have the rent paid for him. He has recently retired and draws a pension including income support which is as much as someone who has worked all their life.
I think the term fraud is meaningless . You don't have to cheat . You just learn to milk the system . Do you remember that TV programme BREAD ? That was real life and has been the reality for generations. We all suffer because of the system including those who really need the help .
" Oh then you don't have to pay for any of these services and she held up a great big list of exempt items. So the true value of being on benefit is far greater than the basic benefit itself.
In addition to that as soon as you are on one benefit it opens the door to many others.
A neighbour of mine was unemployed ( since the age of 52 ), moved into an expensive apartment once he was told he could have the rent paid for him. He has recently retired and draws a pension including income support which is as much as someone who has worked all their life.
I think the term fraud is meaningless . You don't have to cheat . You just learn to milk the system . Do you remember that TV programme BREAD ? That was real life and has been the reality for generations. We all suffer because of the system including those who really need the help .
Cameron will save the country 1. 5 billion pounds but if he is determinined to help the old folk we will lose another 4 billion pounds
OAPs 'miss out on £5.4bn benefits'
Pensioners are failing to claim up to £5.4 billion in benefits every year even though many of them are struggling to make ends meet, new research has indicated.
Age UK estimates that 1.97 million older people who are eligible for council tax benefit are not claiming it, collectively missing out on £1.5 billion a year from this benefit alone - an average of £728 each.
The charity said pensioners were nearly twice as likely to miss out on council tax benefit as other age groups, with 44% of eligible older people not claiming it, compared with just 28% of non-pensioners.
It said the reasons older people failed to pick up money they were entitled to ranged from being unaware of the range of benefits available or not realising they were eligible to thinking the claiming process was too complicated.
But it added that despite 1.8 million pensioners living in poverty, many of them felt too proud to claim benefits or thought the claims process was too intrusive, with the charity often told by older people that they would rather be "proud and poor than beg for money".
Recent anecdotal evidence has also suggested that, despite struggling to afford everyday essentials, some pensioners were not claiming benefits because they thought the country could not afford them.
OAPs 'miss out on £5.4bn benefits'
Pensioners are failing to claim up to £5.4 billion in benefits every year even though many of them are struggling to make ends meet, new research has indicated.
Age UK estimates that 1.97 million older people who are eligible for council tax benefit are not claiming it, collectively missing out on £1.5 billion a year from this benefit alone - an average of £728 each.
The charity said pensioners were nearly twice as likely to miss out on council tax benefit as other age groups, with 44% of eligible older people not claiming it, compared with just 28% of non-pensioners.
It said the reasons older people failed to pick up money they were entitled to ranged from being unaware of the range of benefits available or not realising they were eligible to thinking the claiming process was too complicated.
But it added that despite 1.8 million pensioners living in poverty, many of them felt too proud to claim benefits or thought the claims process was too intrusive, with the charity often told by older people that they would rather be "proud and poor than beg for money".
Recent anecdotal evidence has also suggested that, despite struggling to afford everyday essentials, some pensioners were not claiming benefits because they thought the country could not afford them.
>OAPs 'miss out on £5.4bn benefits'
My wifes mother lived in private rented accodation all her life, then when she was in her early 80s moved into a care home.
The benefits people come round every so often and check all the old people there are claiming their correct benefits.
They found my wife's mother had missed out on £7,000 of benefits so gave her a cheque for about £7,000.
As she did not need the money she gave it to her 3 children (one my wife).
So I am sure there are many OAPs who could get loads more money if they knew what to ask for.
My wifes mother lived in private rented accodation all her life, then when she was in her early 80s moved into a care home.
The benefits people come round every so often and check all the old people there are claiming their correct benefits.
They found my wife's mother had missed out on £7,000 of benefits so gave her a cheque for about £7,000.
As she did not need the money she gave it to her 3 children (one my wife).
So I am sure there are many OAPs who could get loads more money if they knew what to ask for.
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