iuc, please please help, I Hav an anxiety disorder, this letter has caused me distres

[Wizzer77]

Yes im meeting her at 10am, meeting due at 10.30. Am soooo relieved cos i am one of those nervous talkers if im not sure what to say. This gives me time to kno what to say, cos even tho i will tell truth i dont wanna go into everything unless im specifically asked. And i will know before what evidence they have. Dont want to deny something in a moment of panic if im caught unaware then let them show me solid evidence n then contradict myself itms

[rozzadozza]

Be nice to know how Jadeybags got on too, mine is on 15th March, it's such a worrying experience....but I think im past that as I know Im not doing anything wrong. xx

[jadeybags]

I think i feel worse cos ther soo much grey area in regards with how much time etc u can spend away from home etc, which makes it so hard. Cos although i know i dont live with him, im questioning whether will it be seen as that. If that makes sense. But all will b revealed tomorro, n camt wait to kno what they have to say to me, n any evidence they think they have. Arrrgggghhhhh roll on tomorro! Am taking some sleeping tabs tonight so i can get a decent sleep, 3 hours in 2 nights isnt helping my state of mind lol

 

Yep, I hear ya. you are going to be fine, even more so now you have a solicitor to go with you, how did you swing that!??

[Wizzer77]

Just rang round frantically lol and was very lucky i guess. I just truly hope this is just tying up some loose ends in regards to when i lived with bf when leg broke, and why i didnt cash cheques. I really hope thats it n all this worry of people reporting me, being followed and my whole life out on the table isnt as bad as im imagining : /

 

Jadeybags had hers rozzadozza, c previous posts hun x keep us up to date with urs too rozzadozza, its easier with support x

[jadeybags]

Just rang round frantically lol and was very lucky i guess. I just truly hope this is just tying up some loose ends in regards to when i lived with bf when leg broke, and why i didnt cash cheques. I really hope thats it n all this worry of people reporting me, being followed and my whole life out on the table isnt as bad as im imagining : /

 

Jadeybags had hers rozzadozza, c previous posts hun x keep us up to date with urs too rozzadozza, its easier with support x

Totally reasonable to be imagining people watching you, I gave the bloke getting out his car when I took the kids to school yesterday evils, even though mine wasn't to do with the living with someone issue. LOL seriously. It's basically paranoia because you have been accused of benefit draud. And the horror stories you read. But most of them come to nothing, it's just they are quite happy to seek reassurance on places like this, but fail to let people know what actually happened in the end because they got the outcome they wanted. Way of the world unfortunately.

[Wizzer77]

I will 100% b back on this to help others, cos this has been horrific and this site has given me something to focus on and feel supported and i cant thank every single person who comes on here to help others enough xxx

[jadeybags]

I will 100% b back on this to help others, cos this has been horrific and this site has given me something to focus on and feel supported and i cant thank every single person who comes on here to help others enough xxx

 

Yep, same here, no matter what had happened to me today or what hapens in the future, because it's not over til the fat lady sings for me after all! I will be on here boring the pants off people with results lol

I dont like to think anyone is taken to court because of something they said under pressure under an IUC when they are innocent. Unless the interviewer I had today was lying, which is always possible with people that are trained to try n catch you out, there is loooooads of vulnerable people being prosecuted for things they didn't understand in the first place but implicated themselves on tape due to fear. You only have to read the Child poverty action group to see how many people live in fear of these authorities & end up in debt due to paying back over payments that they cant afford. It's getting shocking.

[Wizzer77]

Not long now!!! Arrrgggghhhhh im so nervous im physically shaking, feel sick : /

[jadeybags]

Not long now!!! Arrrgggghhhhh im so nervous im physically shaking, feel sick : /

 

Good luck. You will be fine, & I am so glad you're going with a solicitor. Will keep an eye out for your return, if anything like me you have to ring round family to let them know what happened first. But I reckon you'll be ok. Juts remember, no waffling! Just answer the questions lol Although I struggled with that, took a lot of restaint to keep me gob shut

Go get em!!!

xxxx

[sea-sidelady]

Good luck today Wizzer. You will be fine, especially now you have a solicitor. Is she a specialised one or a regular one? Lots of deep breaths, and let your sol do the talking. And at least you know what they have BEFORE you go in so you will be more confident of your answers.

[Wizzer77]

Couldve gone better : / they had evidence of me changing schools which I did, hardly any use of electric, and a neighbour telling them I was hardly ever there :/ so not good really doesn't look good they sed it being sent off to a decision maker. Dunno if what I sed got me in more trouble. The lady interviewer was not very friendly after interview I sed thank u and she just looked away :/ she thinks I'm guilty! So hope she doesn't Hav a say innit!!!! I'm just so scared now and hope for best!

[Wizzer77]

Solicitor thought I went ok tho n sed I may Hav to pay bk the money for wen I was staying with bf wen broke leg, which I don't really understand cos they Hav proof I informed them of this :/ And they noted that I did :/

[jadeybags]

Did you say that to him? About proof that you let them know?

To be honest it still doesn't look like they have a cast iron case to go on. And no, it's not going to be her choice what happens. The fact they know now you have a solicitor involved they'll also know they will need more to go on that what they have so far to take you down!

What's your neighbour like! So it was the neighbour that rang them?

[Wizzer77]

I Hav no idea who told them, neighbour just sed that to an officer who came about something else! It's just a nightmare! I can't afford to pay anything bk and am just scared I will, argggghhhhhhhh!!!

[jadeybags]

Just read through this thread from the begining again. So you changed your childrens school in preperation of moving in together in april. Of which you had informed the benefit dept of, by cancelling your claim. You dont have any shared bills, they haven't produced evidence of anyone coming & going from your house, no evidence of you only collecting post from yours, & you dont use much electric because you're skint, hence the reason you went bancrupt.

You know what, I am no expert, but that reeeeally doesn't sound like anything that would be enough to find you guilty of fraud in a court. You let them know about stopping at the BF when you broke your leg. I expect what the solicitor means there is there is probably a time limit you can be away from home before the benefit stops (which I am not sure of what that time scale is) & that's why he is saying you may have to pay that back.

But the living together thing? I cant see them getting a conviction out of what they have yet. The IUC was to see if you will admit to it I am betting. x

[jadeybags]

Ok, it's 13 weeks you can be away from home...

 

http://england.shelter.org.uk/get_advice/paying_for_a_home/housing_benefit_and_local_housing_allowance/housing_benefit_while_away_from_home

[Life-Goes-On]

Looks like the did a bit of research I didn't even know that they looked at a person electric.

 

I believe you can appeal the DM, but sounds like your solicitor is expecting it to go against you.

 

Did the solicitor talk about the likelihood about any further action they might take apart from a repayment?

[Wizzer77]

No she sed it went well other than that :/ oh I dunno I'm still confused but at least I will b coming off all that 1st April n won't Hav to watch myself or anything anymore x

[sea-sidelady]

they had evidence of me changing schools which I did, hardly any use of electric, and a neighbour telling them I was hardly ever there :/

 

So was this all they had against you? No photo's, dates or other "evidence" against you?

 

Hardly seems enough to file a case against you.

[jadeybags]

No she sed it went well other than that :/ oh I dunno I'm still confused but at least I will b coming off all that 1st April n won't Hav to watch myself or anything anymore x

 

That is a good thing. They will never be anything but hassle, benefits, until they bring in the universal benefit system. I wont touch housing benefit until that happens. Youngest is still at school until another 3 years, so I may get it again through the new system, if it's been phased in by then, but not until then.

My goal now is to up my work hours. Your goal is to let your solicitor deal with anything else from them now, because you're no longer claiming anything off them anymore, they haven't got anything definite to go on. If they ask you to another interview, if it was me, I would decline. But that has to be your choice.

The stopping away from home thing should be fine for you in theory because you weren't away longer than 12 weeks were you. And you had a good reason for being away & you let them know.

Job done! x

[jadeybags]

So was this all they had against you? No photo's, dates or other "evidence" against you?

 

Hardly seems enough to file a case against you.

 

Exactly x

 

And was probably why the woman had such a sour face when Wizzer walked out the door!

[Life-Goes-On]

The trouble is by changing schools she will have signed she lives at that address.

They will use that to show she admits to living there, and the other bits to confirm that.

[Wizzer77]

That's it, tried to catch me out twice, once cos for some reason official receiver put bf name down on bankruptcy website but luckily I brought a letter from them and my bankruptcy application which had my address on, also with driving with broken leg (driving my kids to school) it's my left leg n I drive auto so that deflated them abit.

[Wizzer77]

I've admitted I did it to get them into those schools tho, they didn't go into that to much

[jadeybags]

The trouble is by changing schools she will have signed she lives at that address.

They will use that to show she admits to living there, and the other bits to confirm that.

 

If she wasn't moving in with him, I would agree that could be a downer. But 'I have put the adress as this one as I am moving in there in april, we haven't been living together'

I dont think the other bits are concrete enough, personally? I'mnot a judge or jury though. But if I was on jury service on this day I wouldn't say any of it is enough to go for guilty.