JSA benefit fraud, initial letter confirming information, could lead to possible prosecution

[Shoelover]

But the DWP can access your bank accounts anyway. If they need to... This is data sharing....

 

Not strictly true. Only a specially authorised officer can do that under the Social Security Fraud Act and this is strictly regulated.

 

Data matching is a different thing.

[jabbaHutt]

Hello,

 

I got a phone call today from the DWP, this time a different woman from the first.

The first woman has changed teams and is no longer dealing with my investigation.

 

I spoke to this new woman and she told me that the investigation should never had happened.

She asked me if I had been working prior to making the claim, which I had.

She then told me that because my claim was contribution based the saving doesn't matter

and that I had enough contributions to make a claim.

 

She told me that she was going to speak to her manager and close the investigation.

She wanted to confirm my name and that I had been working before making a claim.

To be honest I can not remember if my claim was contribution based.

 

I do remember when making the claim, they asked if I had savings.

Do they ask that if you make a contribution or income based claim, about your savings I mean.

 

This has taken a load off my mind but I have this weird paranoid feeling

that maybe the first woman is claiming to be a different woman in order to get information out of me.

I know this sounds weird but at the moment I am feeling off, very off.

I have some serious issues affecting my mental health.

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Its normal to feel dread in the morning, upon waking the quick change in awareness causes a nervousness and feeling of dread.

I don't think everyone gets it.

But its when it carries on and appears at different times of the day.

Its particularly scary when it is a goal that you have set to achieve.

Problem is knowing when.

I think for now this investigation thing is gone, part of me expects it to pop up in the immediate future

as a manager somewhere realises he can get my balls another way.

I would like to thank everyone for their contributions, especially shoelover!

 

Thanks

Simon

[Shoelover]

Simon,

Sounds as if it's over. It can't hurt to ring back next week and ask them to confirm its now closed. I should imagine most people find it stressful.

 

Usually they ask the questions when you make a claim as you don't know at that point if you will get conts based or not, so the forms usually cover all bases.

 

 

Glad I was able to help- look after yourself and chalk this one down to experience and move on,

 

Xx