Re: DWP scams benefit claimants (again)

I know all about it. Benefit fraudsters are the scum of the earth, their activities ensure there is less money to go round for genuine claimants.

Re: DWP scams benefit claimants (again)

So you'd stop a person returning to their home after a hospital stay or their widow or widower from carrying on after they die. Nice really nice.

You obviously have no concept of real life where anyone isn't in your comfortable little bubble. No reason you should I guess but don't assume you are right if you have no knowledge about a topic.

Re: DWP scams benefit claimants (again)

Seconded.

Re: DWP scams benefit claimants (again)

Whilst you could have phrased it more diplomatically about people dying in hospital ...you're not wrong.
There are benefit scroungers out there .. and some are brazen about it too, believing the government (us, the taxpayer) are there just to support them.

My sister was one, might still be swinging the lead now for all I know. I'm going back a good 10 years when she claimed mental disability though so presumably the government have tightened up and weeded out those, like her, who are true malingerers.
I can't honestly say she bragged about playing the system either ... she saw it as her right and that the government shouldn't get off scot free in terms of supporting her.
She'd even sit in my lounge and whip out her mobile phone to check her online banking to see that her payments had gone in on time. She was worse than a debt collector.

Re: DWP scams benefit claimants (again)

Assessments are very thorough nowadays and quite rightly so.
You need to back up your claim with plenty of medical evidence.

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Thank god for that ..a good thing too.
It used to be a right smack in the face to people who worked hard, often on minimum wage, to see her kind milking the system so she could indulge in her annual restocking of her fashion wardrobe every spring.
I was the poor relation.

Re: DWP scams benefit claimants (again)

The trouble is though morti they've gone too far and assume everyone is scamming. It's really heart breaking trying to make a claim and prove you can't work these days. People are tested regularly to see if a leg has miraculously grown back or a lung repaired it's self. Never say you have good days and bad days they assume that means you can do a full time job with no support.

It never was scammers costing a lot motivated this as they spend more testing people than they have got back from those scamming , also they cheat people out of benefits they are entitled to. Say you can't read they send you letters, say you can't speak they ring you on the phone. Anything to stop a claim.

Went to cab myself this morning they are snowed under with people like us new to the system made to feel we are a burden. Also people losing their homes because their money has been slashed.

People like T have no idea what people are going through, just because you are in hospital doesn't mean you don't need a home to come back to or that the entire family are dying it's usually just the one person !

Re: DWP scams benefit claimants (again)

The widow or widower aren't entitled to their benefits, anymore than I would be entitled to my husband's benefits if he kicked the bucket.

I have every knowledge of the topic, I don't live in a comfortable little bubble, I live in the real world where things have not been easy for us, anymore than they have for anyone else.

Re: DWP scams benefit claimants (again)

You'd be ok under a bridge most of us would have a little more sympathy for someone in that situation. And yes they would be entitled to it as to be living as a dependant they can make their own claim. Had to do that for my mum. It's an extra strain and so difficult at a time all a person wants to do is grieve.

Re: DWP scams benefit claimants (again)

You don't have a clue what you are talking about where I am concerned, so don't pretend you do!: