Benefit scammers – everyone hates them. Everyone seems to know someone who has done it. But when do the punishments lose all credibility? How about they already have…
A man who claims income support, council tax benefit, disability living allowance and incapacity benefit, while his wife claims carer’s allowance for looking after him. This is all while he runs a stall on a market and owns a Mercedes convertible with over £100k savings in the bank? Slap on the wrists, ordered to pay back the £40,000 he defrauded.
Or a woman claiming two council houses while she already has her own house (one of which was claimed in a false name), then letting them out? Slap on the wrists, tenancy terminated.
Another woman, claiming to live alone to get discounts and benefits, while she actually lives with her husband? Again, slap on the wrists and ordered to pay £15,000 back.
How about a woman who applied every year for her dead husband’s blue disabled parking badge for 9 years, then has the cheek to challenge a ticket she gets when a warden sees her park up on her own, as a female instead of male, as it says on the badge? Prosecuted for a ‘false declaration’.
Now, an illegal immigrant studying to be a nurse while she gets housing benefit. This one is hard. On one hand, she could well help the UK (what with its terminal lack of nurses and doctors) and compared to the others, she’s done far less wrong. What does she get? A prison sentence, at the end of which she gets deported.
Am I the only one who sees the stupidity in all of this? Surely a man who defrauds the country of over £40,000 while giving bugger all back is more deserving of some good old-fashioned prison time for fraud than, say, a woman studying to be a nurse. Yes, illegal immigration is a big problem, but for one I would rather have HER in the country than him. Or any of the others for that matter. Its just a matter of who is doing what for the country.
Oh, and actually having some balance to the punishments would be a nice thing. Then again, thats just me.
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Diane Charlton
13|May|2010 1Is it me who is totally nuts or the benefit system???
Full time skilled male worked 40 years and according to Institue of Fiscal Studies paid equivalent of quarter of million into system. Unemployed and contribution based meagre JSA expired.
Wife works part time on low wages but if wife worked more hours and earned more making couple financially better off then couple could claim working tax credits. If wife earns less and is therefore an almost destitute household income – cannot get any financial help at all apart from a funeral grant – oh whoopie how useful!
In the meantime the chavs are decked in ‘cash my gold’ weighing them down and making them so weary they have to sit down in local hostelry for entire day to quench their thirst before the weary trek to McDonalds to order everything off menu before purchasing their designer clothing to look the part with their status symbol staffies and terrorists who want to blow the UK to pieces have their human rights to a thousand quid a week benefits upheld.
Meanwhile the ex grafter who has paid for these lavish lifestyles cannot afford heating lighting or food as his household is only entitled to a funeral grant!
Am I the totally insane one – I am beginning to think so!
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