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Social housing fraud

  • 19-01-2024 11:26pm
    #1
    Penguin28
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭


    Long story short. We live in a new estate with 10 social houses. One of the houses has just gone to a "single mum", However - her fiance bought a big modern house with her, where she has been living the last 5/6years with him and their children (Social media confirms) They recently had a new baby too. Now here's the issue.... he is there in the new place every day for 6 hours plus a day, stays the night and is constantly doing up the house. They are most certainly still together. What does one do in this situation? It's bothering me as I know so many people who are in desperate need of a home.

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  • #2
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,249 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Council for housing, Social Protection for any believed benefits stuff. However, you may not have all of the story and there may still be a legitimate entitlement.

    Don't expect to ever hear anything back from either even if your suspicions are correct, even if they act on them.



  • #3
    herbalplants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,284 ✭✭✭herbalplants


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058332251/social-housing-fraud

    Report her 100%. As long as people say nothing just to be polite, these people will milk the tax payers money.

    Living the life



  • #4
    MakersMark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 648 ✭✭✭MakersMark


    Please report these filthy scroungers.


    Hard working tax payers have to foot the bill for these dirty leeches.



  • #5
    billyhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,918 ✭✭✭billyhead


    Report anonymously to DSP and the council. They do act on these reports.



  • #6
    suvigirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,056 ✭✭✭suvigirl


    Why would anyone but a 'big fancy house ' with their partner, then go and live in social housing? For what possible reason?



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  • #7
    Meeoow
    Registered Users Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Meeoow


    I'm struggling to see the benefit of them doing this? As far as I know, you can't buy the house off the council anymore, can someone correct me if I'm wrong.

    Are they renting out the other house that they bought together?



  • #8
    Quitelife
    Registered Users Posts: 1,255 ✭✭✭Quitelife


    Could use the council house for cutting up or storing drugs etc .. happening a lot these days , Council are very weak getting rid of drug dealers



  • #9
    SouthWesterly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,851 ✭✭✭SouthWesterly


    If she's on opf and living with him, the inspector will investigate if DSP are informed.



  • #10
    thereiver
    Registered Users Posts: 343 ✭✭thereiver


    The only reason i can think of, she is claiming payments as a single mother ,,she would lose most of her welfare payments if it was known she was living in a new house with her boyfriend who is obviously working on a high income ,i m just suprised she has put up photos on social media which can be seen by anyone and show she is in a relationship , she might also lose her medical card .maybe the intention is to rent out 2 rooms in the new house so most of the time he will stay in her council house .you can get 14 k rental income tax free per year.



  • #11
    Meeoow
    Registered Users Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Meeoow


    I'd be surprised if anything comes of the report. I reported someone years ago. They were claiming using one name and nationality and working using another name and nationality. I could give the dole very specific details. She is still here, even got a nice social house since I reported her.



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  • #12
    Ray Palmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,416 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121645564#Comment_121645564

    How would you know what the DSP did to him? He could be on a repayment plan and you wouldn't know. He could still be entitled to housing regardless and the fraud wouldn't change that. They very rarely prosecute anybody as it costs so much and they just end up on the same payment plans



  • #13
    SharkMX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,457 ✭✭✭SharkMX


    Have a relative who moved into his girlfriends council house and rented his own house out .... to the council. Dont know if anyone ever reported him but hes been living with her going on 5 years now. Her son moved out about 6 months before he moved in. I heard the son went to Oz and never came back.



  • #14
    Kk333
    Registered Users Posts: 83 ✭✭Kk333


    Shes doing nothing wrong. He's not living there full time with her. Your aloud to have a social life even in a council house. Your obviously not working of your creeping ok people all day long.



  • #15
    xyz13
    Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭xyz13


    Of course an incel will see nothing wrong... I hope this scammer gets caught!

    Its you are and allowed.

    Bien faire et laisser dire...



  • #16
    BigbogmcG
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭BigbogmcG


    Bad answer, they have no entitlement, because it’s means tested. Their means are not being declared. She’s not disclosing her relationship with him. She is not declaring her status. She will be taken to court for fraud. Report it. You can do so anonymously. reportfraud@welfare.ie
    thank you for being a caring citizen.



  • #17
    BigbogmcG
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭BigbogmcG


    Report these fraudsters. Very arrogant of them to be so blatant. She’s telling Sw she’s on her own that’s the only way she got the house. She would have received rent supplement from Sw too and claimed she was renting from her fiancé, and she would have had this fake ‘rent’ paid by the government!!!! so double fraud. Report immediately. To the county council housing department and to Sw. reportfraud@welfare.ie



  • #18
    Jizique
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭Jizique


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122497374#Comment_122497374

    Agree, this is destroying the country and is completely indefensible



  • #19
    BigbogmcG
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭BigbogmcG


    To KK 333 she’s a fraudster and in ireland that’s a serious crime. She did not declare status being engaged and means, that they have a house together where they live. Why is this so hard for you to accept? You are just being nasty and argumentative here.



  • #20
    BigbogmcG
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭BigbogmcG


    The rest of us could all do the same. We choose not to. They need to be reported for the sake of our country.



  • #21
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,712 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122497376#Comment_122497376

    this case should be reported, but such serious case could be in the minority, most on welfare recipients are genuine, but financialisation of our property markets is the main culprit of what has ultimately damaged our property markets….



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  • #22
    mariaalice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    I doubt people are that stupid nowadays.

    There are a not insignificant amount of couples who are together years but don't live together.

    I would hazard a guess that she applied for social housing a long time ago and when she got the social housing took it, she is probably working part-time.

    She is allowed have a bf and he is allowed to do work on her house she doesn't have to live with him.

    It's not exactly fraud.

    20 years hence they will most likely be still together but not living together.



  • #23
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,712 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122498256#Comment_122498256

    maybe, but you do have to acknowledge an element of welfare fraud does also occur….



  • #24
    mariaalice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122498259#Comment_122498259

    Of course, but posters seem to be implying that just because her bf has a house she should be living with him.



  • #25
    Buddy Bubs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭Buddy Bubs


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122498732#Comment_122498732

    No, he shouldnt be living with her on taxpayers bill is what the problem is. She can live there OK if she is what she claims to be.



  • #26
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,712 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122498749#Comment_122498749

    partners are actually allowed to stay temporally with tenents, if you have a problem with this, campaign for its change….



  • #27
    mariaalice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122498749#Comment_122498749

    According to the op the bf has a house he is in her house a few days a week that's not living with her and I'd almost guarantee she has a job of some sort.

    There are loads of situtation like that and as I said a lot of couples live separately 20 years or more together and never live together full time.



  • #28
    Buddy Bubs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭Buddy Bubs


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122498767#Comment_122498767

    Every day plus stays the night. Sounds a bit like what I do where I live.



  • #29
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,712 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122498787#Comment_122498787

    ….again, maybe, this information hasnt been confirmed, just cause somebody says something on the internets, doesnt mean its actually true, so again, maybe…..



  • #30
    Buddy Bubs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭Buddy Bubs


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122498816#Comment_122498816

    Its in the OP, only case we are talking about here



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  • #31
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,712 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122498844#Comment_122498844

    again, some 'information' on the internets isnt actual information at all, sometimes its all just pure bullsh1t, which is also a possibility here to, i.e. the whole story could be bullsh1t, designed to incite….

    …note, the op is a few months old, so….



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