Cable Forum - View Single Post - Worrying news for ESA claimants converting from DLA to PIP.

RichardCoulter · 22-10-2016, 16:30

Possibly some inexperienced member of staff not knowing how to read the screens properly.

A carer is not required to live with the person they care for anyway.

If the system had of held an incorrect address for 25 years, it would have been picked up by one of the computer record data matching excercises.

This is where benefit claims are compared to public and private information to detect and prevent fraud eg if you tell TV licensing that you've moved, but not the DWP, it will be picked up.

If you apply for a loan and say that you live with a partner, yet are claiming benefits as a single person, this will be picked up.

Records are checked with universities to find any benefits claimants who haven't declared this etc etc.

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RichardCoulter cf.mega poster Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 10,048	Re: Worrying news for ESA claimants converting from DLA to PIP. Possibly some inexperienced member of staff not knowing how to read the screens properly. A carer is not required to live with the person they care for anyway. If the system had of held an incorrect address for 25 years, it would have been picked up by one of the computer record data matching excercises. This is where benefit claims are compared to public and private information to detect and prevent fraud eg if you tell TV licensing that you've moved, but not the DWP, it will be picked up. If you apply for a loan and say that you live with a partner, yet are claiming benefits as a single person, this will be picked up. Records are checked with universities to find any benefits claimants who haven't declared this etc etc.