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Facebook catches benefit cheat

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  • ZX BeccyZX Beccy
    edited February 2011
    :lol:
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited February 2011
    cue the usual suspects now ranting as this thread wobbles off and on topic :)
  • HerculesHercules
    edited February 2011
    JACK98 wrote: »
    Some good news for you all here-

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1359267/Facebook-unveils-benefits-cheat-bride-Jail-single-mother-trapped-wedding-snaps.html

    Wot a dumbass :)
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited February 2011
    thx1138 wrote: »
    cue the usual suspects now ranting as this thread wobbles off and on topic :)

    Clears throat ! Well..... ;)

    But seriously if youre on the sick and make out you cant walk at all, dont go playing sunday league football (as you see on tv in some of these cases), and why oh why do people make their facebook photos public and not just to their friends ??? Just crazy.

    Schoolboy error by this woman !
  • MrCheeseMrCheese
    edited February 2011
    I don't normally post any pictures of me wearing a dress on facebook.
  • 1980-20..1980-20..
    edited February 2011
    thx1138 wrote: »
    cue the usual suspects now ranting as this thread wobbles off and on topic :)

    Chuckle
  • WinstonWinston
    edited February 2011
    I frequently post pictures of me wearing a dress on Facebook.
  • morcarmorcar
    edited February 2011
    People like this make me sick and gives the rest of the people who are on the sick a bad name. I am currently on the sick with depression and anger issues and although i am on tabs for it they don't help me much. I am going to counciling and although on the sick still seeking work to come off it (I dont want to stay on it for the whole of my life)

    Then you have these twats raping the system.

    Is there because if you fall on hard times you can use it. Its not for life ffs.
  • fogfog
    edited February 2011
    it's partly the daily mail stating the obvious. we all know it goes on and it's been going on decades.. just now it's getting easier to catch em.
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited February 2011
    It does make me laugh that council investigators were checking facebook. All I can say is her privacy settings should have been set.
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited February 2011
    Funny catching her on facebook, that in itself would set bells off in my head. I couldn't even afford the internet when I was on the dole, it would've been a classic toss up between surfing, or being able to clothe and feed myself.

    Although t'internet is very cheap now compared to back then.

    Anyway the fat cow deserves every bit of it, bet she wears lycra leggings, flip flops, and a Berghaus jacket. Her kids are probably theiving little toerags as well, her husband is probably an ex bricklayer turned professional gambler or something like that :lol:

    As mile would say "Broken Britain!" :D
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  • milemile
    edited February 2011
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    Funny catching her on facebook, that in itself would set bells off in my head. I couldn't even afford the internet when I was on the dole, it would've been a classic toss up between surfing, or being able to clothe and feed myself.

    Although t'internet is very cheap now compared to back then.

    Anyway the fat cow deserves every bit of it, bet she wears lycra leggings, flip flops, and a Berghaus jacket. Her kids are probably theiving little toerags as well, her husband is probably an ex bricklayer turned professional gambler or something like that :lol:

    As mile would say "Broken Britain!" :D

    Broken Britain!!!
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited February 2011
    There's sit com on TV called Benidorm and I believe some of the characters on it are on the dole, but spend their summers in Benidorm.

    I would not be surprised if that happens for real.
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  • thx1138thx1138
    edited February 2011
    the problem as I see it is this;

    people that are entitled to the various sickness benefits available, from Employment Support Allowance, to Disability Living Allowance etc, try to honestly answer the questions that they are presented with.

    The decision makers at the other end, then arbitarily decide who can and cannot have these benefits, and so the law abider has to seek help to appeal, often with a GL24. Or they may be turned down for one benefit, as they applied for the wrong one and the people doing the turning down, don't go out of the way to tell the claimant just what it is that they should apply for.

    For instance, a question might be, can you go up and down your stair case. To which a person might answer Yes.

    When in fact, they can make it up and down, maybe once or twice in a day, on their hands and knees, taking 30 minutes to recover.

    Wheras a professional scrounger, and these do exist too of course, just knows how to answer the questions in order to get the payments which they don't deserve, as there is nothing wrong with them.
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited February 2011
    thx1138 wrote: »
    the problem as I see it is this;

    people that are entitled to the various sickness benefits available, from Employment Support Allowance, to Disability Living Allowance etc, try to honestly answer the questions that they are presented with.

    The decision makers at the other end, then arbitarily decide who can and cannot have these benefits, and so the law abider has to seek help to appeal, often with a GL24. Or they may be turned down for one benefit, as they applied for the wrong one and the people doing the turning down, don't go out of the way to tell the claimant just what it is that they should apply for.

    For instance, a question might be, can you go up and down your stair case. To which a person might answer Yes.

    When in fact, they can make it up and down, maybe once or twice in a day, on their hands and knees, taking 30 minutes to recover.

    Wheras a professional scrounger, and these do exist too of course, just knows how to answer the questions in order to get the payments which they don't deserve, as there is nothing wrong with them.

    I've got a friend at work who has chronic back pain. It's a combination of a ruptured disc, Spondilosis and Arthritis. She's on a shit load of painkillers just to get up in the mornings, and has regular muscle relaxing injections in the base of her spine every 3 months. But, she's tried to get DLA and has been turned down several times.

    Her ex though has just been caught for claiming 3 or 4 different benifits JSA, council tax etc plus sick as he's "got a bad back" (she grassed him up), but he was still working as a carpet fitter. He got a caution and a slap on the wrist.

    But, as she's currently not talking to me because of a silly joke comment that I made, I couldn't care less about her at the moment ;-)

    AND, from my local newspaper last week...

    http://www.scarborougheveningnews.co.uk/news/local/escort_told_to_repay_3_500_benefits_1_3081277

    I wonder who got to do the "investigation" into this one :D

    Also, how would you go about filling in that occupation on your tax return form :lol:
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