Comments on: The UK’s Top Ten Benefit Scandals

By: Dem

Dem — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:45:26 +0000

The only way to control this is to either regulate their paymasters, or limit the availability of funds for these benefits.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:40:27 +0000

It is about time that the honest workers pestered the authorities to take action, change the laws or whatever is necessary to bring back some common sense.

I pay too much tax to fund people who can, but won’t work. I pay too much tax to fund benefit frauds. It spoils it for the people who genuinely need help.
The whole system has to be changed – put me in charge and I will get something done!!!!

By: Sal

Sal — Tue, 31 May 2011 22:08:14 +0000

Its not all the immigrants fault, its the governments fault as well for letting so many into the country. Some do come here to find work but why the hell do we pay money to the ones that come here just to scrounge money housing and a long list of other things they get for free from the state. As a previous poster said if they have not put into the state they should not be allowed to get free money out, With Asylum seekers if they get caught breaking the law they are they not supposed to be sent back where they came from, making fraudulent claims to get money, is that not breaking the law

By: Mark Wells

Mark Wells — Tue, 03 May 2011 10:02:25 +0000

I am sick to the core of stories like this, this makes me so mad that if I could I would turn my back on this country and it’s disfunctional goverment. AAARRRRHRHHH. Really how can a goverment just turn a blind eye on problems like this when it is obviously costing us (the tax payers) a hell of a lot of money. I am now 36 and expecting my first child, good news, yeah right my wife’s wages will not cover child care, so we are soon to loose one of our income’s, my income is OK but not fantastic. I work at Heathrow Airport but have had to move 30 miles away just to afford a 1bed flat. Due to soon loosing one of our income’s we now cannot get a bigger mortgage to buy a 2 bed flat. So what do I do.. . . . Bring my child up in a 1bed flat with no help from my Goverment. F**king great, I’ve been in full time work since I left school, I’ve never missed a tax payment, I’ve never bent the rules to get things I shouldn’t and what do I get for this. NOTHING. . . . Yet a Terrorist and his family can live in this country in a half a million pound house and get £680 a week and never do a day’s work.
AAAARRRRRRGGGGGHGHGHHHH Come on how is this possible. All we are doing is making it impossible for people to live normal lives, seriously do we all have to aim to become homeless and pennyless to be able to live a life in this country. I wish I could swear on this site, but being a normal reasonable person, who does not cheat the system I will restrain myself. AAARRRRGGGHH.
Is anyone reading these posts and taking note, THE AVERAGE PERSON IN THE UK NEEDS HELP, before the average person in the UK becomes unemployed, homeless, pennyless and desperate.
Come on listen up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: william

william — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:30:36 +0000

i have a neighbour who had a heart attack 20 years ago who has been on the high rate of mobility allowance and care allowance all those years when he leads a very very active life with holidays abroad 2-3 times a year and not cheap holidays, they go to disneyland florida, australia, turkey, portugal, spain, holland, and regularly travel all over the uk playing in and watching darts tournaments.
his wife claims to have severe mental health problems and says that she is suicidal and needs a carer and cant go out alone, and then goes to bingo 6 nights a week and has a ball, i know this family well and they are fitter than you and me. they have a mobility car, not the basic car they had to pay £1,549 in advance and all the mobility allowance to have it, it is a 7 seat top of the range nissan quashqai n tec with all the extras, they also have a son who has just turned 18 who has asthma who they have just paid £2,000 cash for a car on top of £500 for lessons and a further £2,000 for insurance for him so a total cash outlay of £6,000 in the space of three weeks, not bad eh?
they are about to go to a tribunal to get the lad the high rate of mobility because he has asthma, and the mother says she will make sure he cant take his salbutamol inhaler so that he will be breathless when he goes to the tribunal.
this lad is out playing football every chance he gets and runs about mad and has no difficulty at all leading an active lifestyle in fact they are all fit and well.
this is a family who are happy to tell you that they have never done a single days work in their lives and are quite proud of this fact, the husband is 67 and has been an alchoholic for 50 years who has not drank for 10 years but has never worked, his wife does no work at all not even in the home as the husband with the so called heart problems does it all, the washing, cooking ,cleaning, gardening etc basicaly everything that an able bodied person can do so i dont see why he needs care allowance or high rate of mobility because he does not need care and he is perfectly mobile.
this family have much more than everyone living in my area and it is disgraceful that we feel helpless to do anything about it.
why has this whole family been allowed this life of ease for twenty years and for who knows how much longer just because the father had a heart attack twenty years ago, all those in work who graft hard all day dont have the lifestyle of these people so we should do something about this outrage and make these payment to the truly immobile and disabled who genuinly need care and help to be mobile and look after them, not these money hungry fraudsters who dont know the meaning of words like pride and honesty and work.
i suppose that as they got their new car we will now have to endure them bragging to us all about their new car eeeek. oh well i suppose i had better set my alarm for work tomorrow so that i can pay for it all…..care to join me.

By: susiewho

susiewho — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:13:29 +0000

They should be made to work. I work all hours to bring my kids up and I don’t get anything from their lazy unemployed father. My kids had to give up a lot of things that I’d get for free if I was on benefits, but I have to pay for because I’m working.

There’s no point in blaming immigrants; most of them are working hard doing jobs Brits are too lazy to do. They come here because we have so many unfilled jobs!

However, we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that bankers and rich tax dodgers are costing us a lot more than sad scroungers!

By: Tax payer till I die

Tax payer till I die — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:28:17 +0000

I receive company pension after working full time for 38 years and on which I pay tax. Will receive state pension in July which will increase the tax I pay. During the last 20 years of my employment I cared for both seriously ill parents with no help from anybody. Juggling work and caring for my parents was extremely hard but I had to work. I get far less than the benefit scroungers so why is the money they receive not classed as TAXABLE INCOME like mine is. I pay all my bills plus the benefit scroungers bills. They should GIVE THE SCROUNGERS VOUCHERS FOR EVERYTHING INSTEAD OF MONEY. The estate I live on has been renamed to BENEFIT CITY. Perhaps the workers of this country and the taxpayers should give up working and see how long the country would last without us paying our taxes. They should be forced to contribute to society or lose all the taxpayers money they keep getting.

By: barbara

barbara — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:27:27 +0000

This shows why we need to get Labour out of government, becuase this has been going on all the time they have been in power, and the poor get poorer.Vote Conservative, and get these benefit cheats out, David Cameron has promised a clampdown on benefit cheats, so get voting tommmorrow for Cameron.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:29:00 +0000

A year ago, I was made redundant after being with a company for 20yrs. This is my first experience of benefits and at the age of 59, I found it extremely daunting and humiliating. At least I can hold my head up and claim to have paid my share into the system. I agree that anybody defrauding the system should be punished but I must say that if these people have found a way to swindle the system so successfully, perhaps they should be employed to prevent it. Further, perhaps the anger directed at benefit fraudsters, would be better placed directed at the banks for the most succesful robbery of taxpayers money ever perpetrated, without this time, even involving a world war. Please study how banks can create money from nothing by the creation of loans, and then steal YOUR money to replace these ‘debts’ if they are in default. THis made you and I guaranteurs of all the sub-prime loan gambling and how it could be done with no risk to the financial institutions. As this payout, as last I heard it, was circa £147bn, cost to taxpayers is so much that your great granchildren will stil be paying it off. Please level blame at the real criminals in this ‘cost to taxpayer’, and bear in mind that thanks to the demonstation of power shown by the banks to blackmail the world to comply in this robbery, so many more innocent people are now ‘Benefit Scroungers’. Just hope that you are not next ‘out of the door’ because it really will ruin your bigotted day!

By: Dred

Dred — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:56:04 +0000

Good luck to anybody who screws whatever they can out of this shit hole country, I know of quite a lot of people who are claiming everything they can, and then some, and yep, they are working cash in hand too.I wouldnt ever report anybody. This dump of a country is nevery going to give anything to the resident population , in fact, the working man is there for one reason, to be robbed blind by the goverment. Regardless of how many years you have worked, contributed to society and basically avoided being anything of a burden on the economy, you will be robbed to pay for immigrants, prisons, overpaid politicians and do gooders. This government is that stupid and naive they actually think that by encouraging us to inform on illegal benefit claims that we will somehow benefit from the monies they save from this. Dont fool yourselfs, wake up, look at the state of the country, any monies saved would be going straight into the pockets of the corrupt dirt that run this country. If I have offended anybody, I apologize, on a personal level. Just wake up, start questioning everything you are told.

By: Donald Merritt

Donald Merritt — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:15:03 +0000

6o years ago “benefits” were what you needed not money.
As children we went to the Co-Op to get our yearly clothes allocation.
40 years ago if you had no work you went to the Labour Exchange to get work every working day. If no work was available you could claim benefits. If you didn’t go to the Labour Exchange you got no benefits.
Then to save money, don’t laugh, you only needed to go to the Labour Exchange once a week to register and get your money.
Then they sent you your money and you just went there on your prescribed day and hour. Now it was easy to get a job on the LUMP.
Then you could just phone a say you were unwell if you were stuck on your “private job” or claim you could afford the fare.
Then it was obvious that people were going there from work and then going back to work not even bothering to take off their working clothes.
I knew someone who got caught working 3 times and each time he said he was working for nothing. Nothing happened to him. There was 2m job vacancies and he was a fit 24 year old.
I had a chap who worked for me who went on the dole (often). I phoned him up and offered him some work. How long for, he asked. Like last time I said. Two weeks and could end up two years again. Can you guarantee me at least 14 weeks he asked. I said no. He said it’s not worth me coming off benefits then. That was about 15-20 years ago. 25 or so years ago I had a chap who reluctantly stopped working for me. His wife was pregnant and having lots of trouble which caused him to lose a days work each week. He travelled 25 miles to work (50 a day). He said I’m sorry but I cant afford to work. If I go on benefits and work one day private I will be better off. That’s what he did.
The system stinks and no one responsible for paying out the benefits could care how much and to whom. There is no help to help those in need but all the help to help the feckless and lazy.
Particularly with this government, who depend on their votes, expect no change for the better.
We pay benefits to millions who have put nothing into the pot including 100,000s not even been in the country and including millions of foreigners. But you try getting something if you have worked most of your life??????

By: heather brady

heather brady — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:15:30 +0000

I lived abroad for 3 years and this goverment does not even check on spongers in spain we commented to the dss and gave names about the amount of people living on benefits who are all able to work and do work and on top of this live the life many people in england would love to have all because they are able to draw invalidity benefits because nobody checks on them this goverment waste thousands on spongers and do nothing about it at all even when provided with the evidence.

By: tOPPPer

tOPPPer — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:37:31 +0000

Beats having it wasted on corrupt company like A4E

By: mark coomber

mark coomber — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:00:42 +0000

Execute them. Line them up in front of a trench, one shot each in the back of the head. Job done. I’d do it – wouldn’t cause me to lose a moments sleep at night.

By: Lita

Lita — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:05:57 +0000

No hard working person likes a scrounger but you cannot tar everyone with the same brush. I have just been made redundant and hopefully will get a job but with over 100 people applying for every vacancie and I am over 50 it ‘s probably not going to be easy. Last time I was unemployed it took 5 months to find a job and resisted signing on for over 4 months but got totally desperate. I only got about 54 pounds a week and was then asked to pay it back when I got a job ? despite the fact I had no money for months. My partner has worked for 39 years with just a few odd spells of unemployment in recent times he was unable to claim anything and got into serious debt. There was no rhyme or reason to it. You would think that with modern technology that THEY could look at your work record and contributions to see if you are usually employed instead it is made extremely difficult for those that do not know how to work the system and deserve a bit of help.

By: John b

John b — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:32:11 +0000

I think your being a bit harsh, what about there human rights, they have got to live as well

By: Avril Foster

Avril Foster — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:54:37 +0000

I am sick to death of people claiming benefit because they can get more money than by working, the benefit system should have been changed years ago so that they were financially worse off on benefits. They shouldn’t expect to be housed in bigger and better properties, if they want more children, fine but let them continue to live in the same property and if it becomes overcrowded it is their problem not the housing authorities. These measures would also hopefully stop some of the immigrants coming to this country.

By: L Hacking

L Hacking — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:21:34 +0000

For goodness sake, we can all see it so why can’t the government. This is nothing short of fraud so jail sentences should be compulsory. Jail should revert back to jail not the holiday camp it is today and immigrants shold not be entitled to ANY benefits until they have worked and paid taxes for five years. Alternatively, give them all a lethal injection after all they are no good to man nor beast, they sponge and take off society and give nothing in return.

By: Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:07:35 +0000

My life is being destroyed by these ‘poor families’ that sit on their arses all day doing Bugar all!!! I do not live in a council house because I am not a gay fraud!!! I am also not a Chubba boy like that kid in the picture. I pay for exercise and they have the money to afford a personal trainer so why are they not having one coz that kid is fat! That vegetable crap is shizza, veggiues make you healthy not anorexic, and when will that kid ever be anorexic?

By: Georgio Armarni

Georgio Armarni — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:53:49 +0000

If that chubba boy is anorexic then what the hell are we? The benefit system does not work and we are paying for them to sit on their ass pop out babies, eat mcdonalds, buy nice stuff. Well I have something to say about that Mr Gordon Brown!