If somebody who illegally has claimed benefits, decides to stop claiming them, will they still be prosecuted and/or sent to prison?


The benefits are:


Carer's Allowance.

Disability Living Allowance.

Employment and Support Allowance.

Only if they are found out!

ETA: Your post seems to imply that they have stopped claiming and so haven't been found out, or else the claims would have been stopped by the DWP when they started investigating the claimant, in which case they would proceed with their investigation and any further action and obviously the claims would have been stopped by them.

Who decides, if a claim was illegal ? and what is an illegal claim

If found out they'd more than likely be ordered to pay them back rather than imprisonment

It'll depend on a lot of factors.

For example, if you'd claimed the allowances for years, then the police found the body of the person you were supposed to be caring for under the patio - you would probably end up in prison, yes.

Damn, there go my plans

Am I going insane, or have we been here before?

not with our namby pamby criminal justice system, if anything you will be rewarded, Anna Friel has gone on to have a successful film career

I know of people who were a group of friends who all fraudulently claimed and were all prosecuted and sent to prison but it was years ago. I think it depends on whether it can be proved and for how long the claim continued for. If you're claiming in a fake name or for a dead person for example you will be in trouble.

Especially as you need a National Insurance number to claim anything and they would give information that a person is deceased or not

it's advisable not to tell them they are dead in the first place if you have stuck them under the patio

It depends on the amount of money that has been defrauded.
Under £10,000 is unlikely to be a prison sentence.

Usually they are requested to repay the money, and you sometimes see the silly agreements that they will pay £10 a month for the next 90 years!

Basically benefit fraud is the cheapest interest free loan you can get, but even if they have stopped claiming, if there is firm evidence action will be taken against them.

Aye, but you don't see much of Sandra Maitland

If they have aleardy stopped and were not yet contacted by the dwp, should be ok, end of.
If contacted and stopped, as long it;'s not 10's of thousands, the dwp will only be to glad to get a result.

It's no fun that way though

Just a wild stab in the dark here, but I guess that if you are able to look after yourself unaided, and you claim for a carer's allowance, that would constitute as illegal.

The person doing the caring claims carer's allowance, not the person needing the care

Either can claim.

Or Bryan Murray...

Your original point is still moot. The carer is always necessarily able-bodied.

What? My point is moot? My post has no point .. Either can claim. A carer or the disabled person can claim it.

i don`t know, i got half way through a benefits calculator out of curiosity and the drop downs include whether you`re disabled yourself and which disability benefits you`re claiming.

if i regain the will to live i`ll finish it off and see what the score is.

No you're not going insane.........the last time it was something to do with occupancy in a house & who could evict people (or not).
Apparently it was a court case, however the outcome was never disclosed.

You can't claimc arers allowance for looking after yourself. You can only claim for looking after a person.

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