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Originally Posted by Hugh
erm, I was replying to the points you made, which were factually incorrect.
You stated What were the £50 billion of bail-out and £500 billion of guarantees, if not funding*?
And my comments are factually based (unless, of course, I am wrong in that the UK Government did not provide up to £50 billion in taxpayers money to bail out the banks and another £500 billion of taxpayers money in guarantees, and also own 83% of RBS and 41% of Lloyds/HBOS?).
*OED definition of funding - "money provided, especially by an organization or government, for a particular purpose"
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A bail out is not normal funding. It's a rescue package. And it doesn't give the government any say in directors bonuses, which is what this conversation all started about.
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Originally Posted by joglynne
I find it difficult to reconcile someone saying they want benefit abuse to be stopped yet not being willing to do anything about someone who blatantly boasts that they are milking the system.
So I thought I would like to clarify something that I do have professional experience of. If anyone wants to reports benefit abuse they can do so anonymously either by writing in to their local benefits office or to the relevant office dealing with a specific benefit. or they can phone in using the dedicated Fraud Hotline.
An anonymous report is taken seriously but obviously you must be willing to disclose some relevant details of why you consider the claimant is not entitled to the benefit so that the Fraud Team have something to investigate. At no point will you be drawn into the limelight as the whistle blower and NO benefit will be effected until the case is investigated and, if proven necessary, the entitlement to benefit is cancelled. Just saying someone is fiddling will not result in any action being taken as there is neither the man power nor financial resources available to investigate a case where a claimant merely looks too well to be claiming benefit. |
I know exactly what you are saying. But you don't know the very difficult circumstances.