Maria In Greece

[Caran]

If Greece is in such a bad financial state, how can they afford to pay the supposed parents £7000 a month. They obviously do not check on the actual births of children that are claimed for. Didn't the mother claim for 7 extra children in one year?

[jno]

I expet the first thing they did when they needed to make cuts was sack the civil servants who check this sort of thing

[Caran]

That seems quite feeble jno.

[Hypognosis]

@jno,

that's what they did in this country, wasn't it? Very popular with the voters, strangely enough.

[Caran]

Just looked at my post, I meant feasible blasted iPad!!

[jno]

haha, good one, Caran!

http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com/

[Svejk]

There was a programme about 3 sisters, in this country, who discovered they could keep ringing up and adding handicapped children to their benefit bills. They only got caught when they fell out and dibbed each other in.
And while I wouldn't dream of trying to score points, it happened before the recession under Labour.
Not every fraud relies on cut-backs to flourish.

[hc4361]

I wonder how far £7k goes in Greece compared to the UK. I bet the heating costs are much, much cheaper and petrol/diesel.
Don't know about everything else, though.

[friedgreentomato]

Do you seriously think those people were getting 7K a month?

Did you see where they lived and how they were dressed?

No ways sorry don't believe it!

[carolegif]

Where they live and were dressed has nothing to do with how much money they have. I've known people who've lived in squalor and ate frugally, only to die and leave millions!

[LochNessMonster]

She is not my child !

The wee bairn is no Green ?

No Jeremy Kyle for me (put nothing on the end of it)

Nessie :)

[hc4361]

And another one - this time in Ireland
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24626422

[Bazile]

sorry to butt in here Caran
jno - are you a female ?

[jno]

I'm from Middlesex, Bazile

[Bazile]

jno - the reason i asked is because I thought i saw in a post yesterday someone saying that you were female .

I had always thought ( i dont know why ) that you are a male