I manage over 1000 temporary accommodation units for various local councils. The most common fraud I encounter is where a family are housed in temporary accommodation and the husband or partner is not put on the tenancy. The result is the mother can claim full HB and the male can work but does not have to contribute to the rent. Its a hidden fraud but widespread. As we visit all our properties 6 times a year, we "encounter" the absent fathers, or "uncle" as they are termed.
14 Sep 2010
Hidden housing benefit fraud
Sometimes people from the front line look in and give examples of hidden benefit fraud which doesn't show up in the official lowball estimates. Here's another welcome contributor:
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I work in Housing Benefit and the same thing happens, eg, a Somalian woman who keeps having children (she claims she visits Somalia for one week at a time), tried getting Fraud involved but they're not interested.
Many single parents are nothing but. Plus their adult sons "dont live here its just a care of address".
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