UK Landlord Forum / Life

QuoteA record £140 million of taxpayers' money is paid each year to people fiddling the benefits system but councils are failing to tackle the problem, the local government watchdog says today.

My tenant was committing benefit fraud; I tried informing the social benefits, but they did fuck all about it. So I'm not surprised about this.

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The Audit Commission has uncovered a 25 per cent increase in fraudulent benefit claims this year with thousands of people falsely claiming to be homeless, unemployed or disabled.

In one case a man received council tax benefit, income support, incapacity benefit and disability allowance although he ran several businesses, drove a Mercedes and had savings of more than £100,000. His wife even claimed carer's allowance for looking after him.

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a tenant who claimed benefits for homelessness and was given a tenancy had actually bought two homes in different London boroughs and was renting out both.

Read more to read more case studies.

This issue has been going on for ages, and it takes the piss that the government can't develop an appropriate system.