Some people are just blatantly taking the piss whenit comes to hector.

[SimonMac]

Looking at digs in Chiswick, nice place, the landlord seems ok, good tube access and plenty of nice looking boozers. Rent agreed and deposit confirmed..... Oh by the way I want the money in cash, and I'm not gonna do these nancy deposit scheme either, I'll just hold it.

How come we get accused of being on par with child molesters for using a PSC when there is god knows how many people fiddling hector when it comes to off the books rent!

[mudskipper]

Did you report him?

[eek]

Looking at digs in Chiswick, nice place, the landlord seems ok, good tube access and plenty of nice looking boozers. Rent agreed and deposit confirmed..... Oh by the way I want the money in cash, and I'm not gonna do these nancy deposit scheme either, I'll just hold it.

How come we get accused of being on par with child molesters for using a PSC when there is god knows how many people fiddling hector when it comes to off the books rent!

Was it a room or entire premises.

If its a room you don't need to use the scheme if its the flat pay the deposit wait until your about to leave and then make a formal complaint for not being in the scheme. Its a 3x fine from the court.

[doodab]

How come we get accused of being on par with child molesters for using a PSC when there is god knows how many people fiddling hector when it comes to off the books rent!

Fatchers children innit. Spivs the lot of em.

[Wanderer]

Looking at digs in Chiswick, nice place, the landlord seems ok, good tube access and plenty of nice looking boozers. Rent agreed and deposit confirmed..... Oh by the way I want the money in cash, and I'm not gonna do these nancy deposit scheme either, I'll just hold it.

Probably managed to get the keys to a house while the owner is away and he'll take your cash then do a runner once the owner comes back and boots you out.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

My Ex Bro-In-Law openly brags about cheating Hector all the time. After years of trying to get some (any) maintenance for his offspring (NB actual maintenance not shoe money) and after total failure of courts, CSA etc, my sis gave up but decided to phone the HMRC grassers line about him.

He's also a benefit fraudster.

In both cases they have taken zero action - they can't be bothered with the real crooks.

[SueEllen]

My Ex Bro-In-Law openly brags about cheating Hector all the time. After years of trying to get some (any) maintenance for his offspring (NB actual maintenance not shoe money) and after total failure of courts, CSA etc, my sis gave up but decided to phone the HMRC grassers line about him.

He's also a benefit fraudster.

In both cases they have taken zero action - they can't be bothered with the real crooks.

The benefit fraud hotline is over run with calls.

It also helps if a few different people report him. These gov agencies like a few sources of information.

[fullyautomatix]

I thought this was a thread about the EBT threads in the HMRC sub fora :

[Freamon]

The benefit fraud hotline is over run with calls.

It also helps if a few different people report him. These gov agencies like a few sources of information.

Here is an interesting FOI response:

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/reque...10.10.doc.html

09/10 costs: £109.68m
09/10 amt recovered: However the total recovered across all categories of outstanding debt for 2009/2010 was
£294.3m. These include recoveries by the Department of both DWP and Local Authority
administered benefits.

The number of investigations into benefit fraud opened by the Fraud Investigation Service in
the last financial year (2009/10) was 175,508. 135,115 cases were closed during that year.
Please note that the number of closed cases may not necessarily relate to the same year in
which they were opened and therefore cannot be directly compared with the number of cases
opened.

So they're not keeping up with the cases basically. I wonder if there's a better breakdown of the status of the open cases.

[bobspud]

I was having a random chat with a chap in A&E last year. (both our sons had damaged themselves in various ways and were sat in paediatrics on respective games consoles.

He was in accountancy and more specifically company receivership and administration. He said the chances of a conviction for doing devious things during or preceding administration was absolutely zero. HMRC have not got the resources to follow up and as a result were only going for the stuff involving over a million. So getting HMRC to worry about some bloke who is on benefit is the wrong end of the scales. Just have to face the facts that if you really have nothing to lose or don't care then there is nothing they can do.