Saints And Scroungers

BERNADETTE · 20-08-2009, 23:00

There is a fifteen part series showing on BBC1 at nine fifteen in the mornings, worth a watch IMO. It is about serial benefit cheats.

LYNX1 · 21-08-2009, 08:33

Been watching it bernie........its very good

BERNADETTE · 21-08-2009, 08:44

There are some hard faced gets on it aren't there?

jaysay · 21-08-2009, 09:45

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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE

There are some hard faced gets on it aren't there?

Hard faced Bernie, there's some real cheating scumbags, but the problem is they don't get there just deserts, how many people featured this week were shown to be repeat offenders. On the other hand what about the two lasses in Brazil were jailed for making false insurance claims, but had it commuted to community service, against which they are now appealing, looks like they don't take any nonsense in other countries

BERNADETTE · 21-08-2009, 10:07

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Hard faced Bernie, there's some real cheating scumbags, but the problem is they don't get there just deserts, how many people featured this week were shown to be repeat offenders. On the other hand what about the two lasses in Brazil were jailed for making false insurance claims, but had it commuted to community service, against which they are now appealing, looks like they don't take any nonsense in other countries

Yes and people like this are taking money away from the people who are entitled to it, I really don't know how they manage to get high rate DLA so easily

jaysay · 21-08-2009, 10:53

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Yes and people like this are taking money away from the people who are entitled to it, I really don't know how they manage to get high rate DLA so easily

They lie through their teeth Bernie, I know of one chap who wanted mobility, he said he couldn't go to the office so the assessing GP came to his home, they had brought the bed down stairs and he was walking about holding on to furniture when the assessing GP arrived. The same day this same bloke was seen bodily lifting an engine out of a car, the next time I saw him he was driving a brand new motability car

The trouble is Bernie its only if your turned down and appeal that you have to go before a medical panel, before that you only have to satisfy GP incidentally not your own, so its easy to pull the wool over the eyes

BERNADETTE · 21-08-2009, 11:03

I think the rules must have changed John, when Ian applied for DLA he had to be seen by somebody at our doctors surgery.

jaysay · 21-08-2009, 16:11

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I think the rules must have changed John, when Ian applied for DLA he had to be seen by somebody at our doctors surgery.

Could well be Bernie, In my day you had to see another doctor not your own, which I thought was stupid and needed changing so it must have done so