I am a small trader selling at fairs, markets, and more recently at boot sales, and it's amazing how many of these booters are on benefits and selling professionally, whether it's job seekers/housing benefit/dla/council tax.
Do investigators not police these sales? I did a boot sale one weekend recently - over 50 sellers, with almost half of them claiming benefits - and that's the ones I know of.
I am just fed up working longer hours to earn money without having to deal with other sellers who, let's be honest, should not be there because of them claiming benefits which obviously they don't deserve.
The government are trying to save money - wouldn't this be a good starter?
14 Jun 2010
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Interestingly when I was an Investigator for DWP in the 80s I investigated the market traders in a city on the south coast. I have to say that it was quite a cost effective exercise. Now the emphasis is on fraud coming to tne Investigator not the otner way round. It because data matching provides huge numbers of cases to investigate and is seen as more efficient than the Investigators getting out on the streets.
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