[Nedusa]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

by continuing claiming this man was always going to be caught, its just a case of fraud, the fact that he used his dead daughter as a means to commit fraud does not add or detract from this case.

I agree........but the ease with which people are able to claim is almost verging on Entrapment. I mean in a moment of weakness a desparately poor family forget to cancel their recently deceased's mothers old age pension and now having continued to receive it find it hard to stop claiming it as they need the money for food and utilities. They figure it will stop soon anyhow but it continues for years.

It's only £70 a week so they figure the state wont miss it besides they have worked and paid taxes for decades and never claimed in the past. So they think morally they are entitled to it.

This is a more common scenario than most people think.

The onus should be on the Govt to put into place checks and balances that stop this type of unintentional fraud from being committed.