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Benefit Fraud
Dont know if ive posted this in the right section so I will post it in business and finance aswell. A very very stupid friend of mine was claiming jobseekers allowance and council tax benefit while working as a dj (self employed) for a number of years. The benefit agency have caught up with him and he is being prosecuted for benefit fraud and tax avoidence (and rightly so). Total amount he owes is £15,000. Stupid friend is now hardly working as he has not had any party bookings for a while, there is now hardly any money coming in to his household. Friend is a single man with no children living with him. Friend has got a mortgage for his own house. Friend knows he could go to prison as there is no way he can pay this money back, but can they put some sort of charging order or make him sell his house in order to pay the money back that he very wrongly claimed. What can they actually do if he has hardly any money to offer them and goods that are not worth anything so pointless if a bailiff came around.... Thanx very much x
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Speaking as an ex ben manager...since this has gone on for some years it is likely he will serve time and have assets seized....we even had a case were our window cleaner at the office was signining on..then going outside climbing hs ladder and cleaning the very windows we were at..!!! Don't people realise that benefit staff go into pubs and clubs and taxis etcetc...
I used to calculate overpayments of Income Support and JSA.
There was one guy who had a huge overpayment which had to be repaid at a silly rate - I worked out that he would have to live until he was about 160 before it would be fully repaid.
Your friend was lucky to have managed to avoid being caught for such a long time.
There was one guy who had a huge overpayment which had to be repaid at a silly rate - I worked out that he would have to live until he was about 160 before it would be fully repaid.
Your friend was lucky to have managed to avoid being caught for such a long time.