sick to death of scroungers!!!!!!!!

[gossipgirl]

Iwas picking my son up from school yesterday, when a few fellow parents were waiting outside ny the gate where we all usually stop for a chat. Anyway all our attentions turned to our friend susan who has had a turn of bad luck lately with her husband being made redundant as well as other things. and we asked her how they were managing nowadays, afterall there has been so many times she has been crying on our shoulders about how skint they are and how she's worried she is going to lose there home etc. Naturally we all have really felt for her and offered to help in whatever way we could wether it being babysitting so they dont have to pay for childcare and i have even lent her money on a couple of occasions. Well to our suprise she comes out with how there better off than ever at the moment and how she's off on a weekend away with the girls from work and how she has got to get her nails done etc before she goes. I for one was shocked by this as a few weeks before she was pouring out her concerns to us all so i said ' thats fantastic i take it your man has got another job? to which she replied ' well between you and me hes got a job in my dads pub off the books, weve got a 6 month mortgage holiday because hes on the dole, we have got reduced council tax, weve got more money than ever now than when we were both working!' Maybe im just bitter, who knows but i feel she is bang out of order, everyone is feeling the pinch nowadays and have struggles but she is taking the mick here and is abusing the system and me as many of times i have helped out. Why do so many people get away with this??????????? Im not a grass so i wont report it but im so mad at her i just want to scream, me and my partner work our backsides into the ground and what help do we get........nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway i just needed to get that off my chest, what do you think?

[eash]

Give me her name and address and I'll report her.

[sqad617]

sorry gossipgirl........I got half way through when my eyes felt all funny, went dizzy and fell off my stool. I will read the second half when I have recovered.

[funnygirl]

We've got mothers like that at our school gates.

They turn up to collect their children in their 4X4's and their kids are on free school meals!!!

[mrs_overall]

National Benefits Fraud Hotline

0800 854 440

The lines are open 7am to 11pm 7 days a week.

[sqad617]

Hi mrs_o,,,you have "burst" onto the scene with a vengeance. LOL

[bigmamma]

Lol@ sqad !
Yes , that's benefit fraud gossipgirl , I hope they don't get away with it , it's theft .

[puddicat]

Go for it gossip you can do online i think?

[redcrx]

"Why do so many people get away with this??????????? Im not a grass so i wont report it "

you answered your own quesion there

[danchip]

its not being a grass its our civic duty to report these people

I take it your happy handing over your taxes to pay for your friend to go away for the weekend and get her nails done

[cazzz1975]

lol red

pointless getting wound up about something if you are going to do bu$$er all about it gossip, personally I would report her, how many grown adults get called grassers these days (who are not in prison)

[redcrx]

if shes so proud of it and telling everyone then she'll never know who reported it anyway.

[mrs_overall]

If you feel so strongly about it then do something about it. They will be raking in thousands in benefits paid for my mugs like you and me. You can report it anonymously.

This may sound harsh....but put up or shut up!

[danchip]

for all she knows someone at the benefit office could of been in the pub

[mrs_overall]

*by*

[danchip]

staff at benefits offices get sent out to local pubs/restaurants + cafe's for working lunches with the sole purpose of trying to catch benefit cheats, she'll never kow who it was

[onlyme26]

being a tax payer myself ( alot of bloody tax) it is annoying when you work hard get hundreds a month taken off you in tax just to fund someone who cant be bothered working!!!

but as i have got older i have realised its not always as cut and dry as that, some ppl genuinly cant live on what they have and get drawn into a day here a day there off the books and its the only way they stay above water,

but as for your friend totally abusing it with holidays and such!! no thats wrong totally.

[redcrx]

i hope shes also had the decency to pay everyone back the money they lent!

[Nosha123]

is not the point of a payment holiday on your mortgage - NOT to spend your money instead on holidays and manicures.. but to get your SORRY asses back in shape and sort things out? If I was fortunate enough to be given a payment holday from our mortgage (and I bet I wouldnt qualify!!!) then I would use every penny I had to prepare for when the holiday ends and mortgage is back on again.

[angel21]

Yes thats what I was thinking Nosha. Don't worry gossipgirl - they'll probably come unstuck at some point like when they have to start paying their mortgage again and realise they haven't saved up to afford it. They're not doing themselves any favours by getting too used to not having to pay a mortgage. When they have to start paying it again it will be a shock.