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Originally Posted by papa smurf
Despite the checks fraudsters still get through the net.
'Disabled' woman, 50, who said she was a single mother and 'too ill to work' while claiming £260,000 of benefits was caught living with her partner and dancing at a wedding
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...d-partner.html |
Which is a separate issue to 70% of appeals being lost at PIP tribunals. They're losing appeals because of bad decision making and poor quality medical evidence being used.
Resourced more appropriately, with better decision making, would reduce the amount of time spent on the administration of appeals and free up resource to investigate genuine fraud.
In the case you link no number of assessments, being found fit for work, appeals, etc would establish she was living with a partner. Nor would it establish this part:
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she owned other properties and had significant savings, it added.
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