help benefit fraud

[kh41]

Hi all

 

a week ago i was asked to attend an interview under caution for Housing benefit, which i stopped part way through due to being nervous and unsure what to say.

 

i have had a boyfriend living with me on and off for a while and while the interviewer has not yet told me what im being accused of im assuming its about him being here ( when they said his name thats when i asked to stop the interview i saw bank statements in front of them.

 

how do they know how long he has been living here as i have had no visit so im assuming someone has informed on me.

 

my bf has all his post sent here and we have a joint bank which he usess only for his wages to be paid in as he cannot get an account, but all bills are paid by me from my bank account he pays no bills here, i last signed a declaration in july 07 and im worried they are going to accuse me of him being here since there which he hasn,t.

 

what evidence would they have ??

 

thanks for any help

[dx100uk]

time to be honest then me thinks.

else it could be a harder hit.

sadly, the bills issue etc are irrelevent.

 

dx

[needsomeinfo]

your alowed a boyfriend so many nights a week at your house

[kk3852]

your alowed a boyfriend so many nights a week at your house

 

Urban myth I'm afraid.

 

Think of the long distance lorry driver who is only home at weekends, the oil rig workers who are only home every few weeks or so - they still class their home to be with their partners and not in the back of their lorry or in their bunk at the rig.

 

There is no entitlement to a set number of nights a week.

[surprise]

This area is a grey one, my daughter is an HB contractor and she said that their new system can detect where all post is sent, even mobile phone bills. You will need to provide evidence that your boyfriend has liability at another address, ie council tax, etc.

 

The LA tries to establish that he may stay two/three nights a week but he could be working away the other 4 nights.

[ErikaPNP]

You don't have to have had a visit for them to be certain he is living there. If they have reasonable suspicion, they can actually place you under surveillence where they can be watching you (including filming you) for weeks without you being aware of it.

[skonk]

Did you declare the joint bank account to them? I'm sure that if you didn't, then they will look at your statements and see this income, and assume it is yours, as it is paid in regularly, and this would affect your HB.

[GEORGE SAINT]

Does he use another address??????

[snowi]

they had my bank statments my electric bill gas bill phone bill also they had a copy of my new updated passport also noticed at the bottom of some pages it said ask.com and google i typed my name in to these search engines and my old gardening buissness came up and all the things i had added my name to over the years good luck and my down fall was not taking a lawyer with me

DVICE TAKE A LAWYER i wouldnt be going to court if i did xx

[Zamzara]

Urban myth I'm afraid.

 

Think of the long distance lorry driver who is only home at weekends, the oil rig workers who are only home every few weeks or so - they still class their home to be with their partners and not in the back of their lorry or in their bunk at the rig.

 

There is no entitlement to a set number of nights a week.

 

You're right that there is no fixed number of days, but each case has to be looked at on its own circumstances. The test is living together as husband and wife (or as civil partners), so a boyfriend staying over may or may not meet this definition depending on the situation.

[sweets-on-the-move]

when u submitted your claim did u declare ur boyfreind stayed was your claim just for you .if u declared your on your own then u have what is called failed to report a change of circumstances .so u may not be entitled to benefit ie wages going in the bank ect.so your circumstances have changed to your originol claim .this i agree with no guests can stay overnight at all i think the exception may be close family members in life there are many vindictive people ur just another who they are jelous off .although you might be in the wrong here

[catmadwhiskers]

hi need help being accused of benfit fraud just because my boyfriend gets mail sent me he filled a form in from his old work he for got to put care of my addres on it and they said he was living with me. They just waved bits of paper in front of me all the time. Say because this bit of paper said so, no bank statements on mycar insurance. I just said l did know it was wrong. My laywer said it was fine for documents to be sent to me as he dose have a house of his own. Please can somebody help. They said that they can go into my bank account to find my car insurance dealtise but the bank said no that they couldn,t with out a court order. This went on for nearly two hours then they said to me that my body launguage was telling them that l was lying but all they had was a few bits of photocopyed papers from a local company. Nothing else l just kept saying that l didn,t know l was doing any thing wrong by putting care of my address for his care insurance and his work.

[Maggie_moo]

catmadwhiskers,best to start your own thread or you may not get the help, just go to the benefit main page, click on new thread and off you go!