BENEFIT FRAUDSTERS: I CARRY LADDERS A THERAPY FOR MY BACK !!

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Window cleaner? No, I carry ladders as therapy for my back

By Mail On Sunday Reporter

29th May 2011


Benefit fraudsters have been caught concocting ‘ridiculous’ excuses to conceal their crimes, according to a list published by the Government.

People making false claims told inspectors they didn’t realise they were on benefits, must have had their identity stolen – or had an identical twin making claims.

Ministers drew up the list to highlight the £1.6 billion of taxpayers’ money lost through fraud in benefits and tax credits each year, ahead of the introduction of Universal Credit, a single benefit to replace six existing benefits.

A survey of fraud investigators revealed the ten worst excuses used by benefit cheats:

‘I wasn’t using the ladders to clean windows. I carried them as therapy for my bad back.’

‘We don’t live together, he just comes each morning to fill up his flask.’

‘I had no idea my wife was working! I never noticed her leaving the house twice a day in a fluorescent jacket with a “Stop Children” sign.’

‘My wallet was stolen so someone must have been using my identity. I haven’t been working.’

‘I didn’t know I was still on benefit.’

‘I didn’t declare my savings because I didn’t save them. They were given to me.’

‘He lives in a caravan in the drive. We’re not together.’

‘He does come here every night and leaves in the morning and, although he has no other address, I don’t regard him as living here.’

‘It wasn’t me working. It was my identical twin.’

‘I wasn’t aware my wife was working because her hours of work coincided with the times I spent in the garden shed.’

Lord Freud, Welfare Reform Minister, said: ‘Benefit fraud is no joke, and yet our investigators are routinely dealing with bare-faced cheek and ridiculous excuses for stealing money from the taxpayer.

‘Universal Credit will simplify the benefits system and make it much easier to catch people who make false claims.’



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