unbelievable!
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unbelievable!
its human nature to shag a soft system. he's very unlucky to get caught, millions get away with it.
my first experience of a college in the uk was a real eye opener. the tutor told me to claim jobseekers. i said i couldnt because i was a full time student. she said everyone does it and she'd fill the form out for me so the jobcentre thought i was only part time. i said that was fraud, she said it was socially acceptable fraud that everyone did and it was the ebst way to get some "pocket money" while i was a college. many students also claimed various other benefits i'd never heard of.
since then i've known dozens of people who have commited benefit fraud, even members of my own family. it seems it really is a common thing to do in the uk.
my first experience of a college in the uk was a real eye opener. the tutor told me to claim jobseekers. i said i couldnt because i was a full time student. she said everyone does it and she'd fill the form out for me so the jobcentre thought i was only part time. i said that was fraud, she said it was socially acceptable fraud that everyone did and it was the ebst way to get some "pocket money" while i was a college. many students also claimed various other benefits i'd never heard of.
since then i've known dozens of people who have commited benefit fraud, even members of my own family. it seems it really is a common thing to do in the uk.
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I know for a fact that a lot of colleges advise on how to claim benefit whilst doing a 'part time' course (read full time but 'officially' less than 15 hours per week enabling you to claim benefit), and also that the Benefit Office pretty much turns a blind eye towards this. The reason being? A lot of unemployed people are potentially unemployable but with a college NVQ or Access course in a vocational subject they stand a far greater chance of gaining employment. However, these people often can't afford to sign off and go to college without financial help so without benefits they'd stay as unemployable and unable to train for new skills.
However, claiming £65K in benefits is out of order as per the newspaper report Custard posted. I don't think he was unlucky in claiming that much fraudulently, I'm just surprised it took the Benefit Office Fraud department so long to find out...
However, claiming £65K in benefits is out of order as per the newspaper report Custard posted. I don't think he was unlucky in claiming that much fraudulently, I'm just surprised it took the Benefit Office Fraud department so long to find out...
