Benefit cheats...

fliptheswitch | 12:31 Fri 16th Sep 2011 | ChatterBank

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I feel a bit awkward asking this, but I wanted to get a general idea of how other people feel and how you would act.

I 'know of' someone who's claiming benefits and working on the sly, cash in hand. In fact, she has TWO jobs!
She's not a friend, just someone I met through a friend.
I normally don't get myself bothered by this kind of thing, but having met her a few nights ago, she has really irritated me with her stories of how she's "raking it in" and "screwing the system".
She gets all her rent paid for, and council tax and also claims for unemployment. She works during the day and, as she knows the owner of the company, she gets paid cash and it's all completely off the books. She told me this herself, and her friend also confirmed this to me.
She also works an evening job, 3 nights a week... again, all off the books and cash in hand.
She has no children and clearly isn't struggling, so would you be annoyed by this (and consider shopping her) or would it not bother you?

I know this is probably a mixture of bitterness and jealousy, but I just get so annoyed when I see her going out all the time, or coming home with bags and bags of shopping.
Like lots of people these days, I have to budget really carefully each month, and often go without so I can make sure my kids have what they want/need.
This just makes me feel really angry and annoyed.

How would you feel about this and what, if anything, would you do?

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whats been going on ?

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sara3

people always play down whatever their fiddle is!

Bobbisox

maybe they do and maybe they do not Sara3
I don't see it per se but the OP witnessed such a boast of screwing the system

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boxtops

These comments about people on benefits having phones etc reminds me so much of when the Eastern Europea refugees first starting coming to Dover, weren't allowed to work, and hung around the streets. There was a lot of resentment that they had phones - and oh my goodness, gold jewellery - it didn't occur to people that they had civilised lives in their home countries (not much different from some of us) before the persecutions of war started.

sara3

they do, Bobbi. you're saying it's okay to fiddle a bit of tax because Doc has said he does/did that.

it all comes out of the same pot.

Bobbisox

As it repeat, Catch the big guns too, and again, I have never witnessed tax evasion anyway..maybe it happens with the people I know, I will never find out though
isn't this straying from the op somewhat?

B00

oh my goodness, this thread still going? God knows how it got to post number 205, it could've been done and dusted by page one.

Shop the leech, and have done with it.

boxtops

It is a digression, bobbi, but it's a natural progression of the discussion, IMO, I think it's OK.

Bobbisox

I have never done it because I was PAYE, but I am not daft enough to realize it goes on