17 Sep 2010

More hidden housing benefit fraud

Here we published a comment from a housing offical about hidden housing benefit fraud.

Another front line officer has added their own comment:
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".
DWP figures report £17.1bn paid out in housing benefit. Fraud is put at £260m (up from 1.2% to 1.5%!).

These comments suggest that the true figure may be a LOT higher.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why do we give Somali's benefits anyway?

Anonymous said...

Anon

They come here and claim Asylum they when given leave to stay they are free to work or claim benefits. They prefer to claim than work. No politican will address this for fear of being called racists but its costing this country a fortune!

Sweden and Holland are starting to think twice about this sort of immigration as it costs too much in welfare.