Top Ten Benefit fraud excuses

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A survey of fraud investigators revealed the ten worst excuses used by benefit cheats:

• ‘I wasn’t using the ladders to clean windows. I carried them as therapy for my bad back.’
  

• ‘We don’t live together, he just comes each morning to fill up his flask.’
  

• ‘I had no idea my wife was working! I never noticed her leaving the house twice a day in a fluorescent jacket with a “Stop Children” sign.’
  

• ‘My wallet was stolen so someone must have been using my identity. I haven’t been working.’
  

• ‘I didn’t know I was still on benefit.’
  

• ‘I didn’t declare my savings because I didn’t save them. They were given to me.’
  

• ‘He lives in a caravan in the drive. We’re not together.’
  

• ‘He does come here every night and leaves in the morning and, although he has no other address, I don’t regard him as living here.’
  

• ‘It wasn’t me working. It was my identical twin.’
  

• ‘I wasn’t aware my wife was working because her hours of work coincided with the times I spent in the garden shed.’
  

Lord Freud, Welfare Reform Minister, said: ‘Benefit fraud is no joke, and yet our investigators are routinely dealing with bare-faced cheek and ridiculous excuses for stealing money from the taxpayer.

‘Universal Credit will simplify the benefits system


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