I am not sure whether that is tongue in cheek or not - but be very grafeful you've hardly needed doctors and hospitals, sadly, some people are not quite so lucky, often through absolutely no fault of their own.

I am not implying that everyone who says they've never made a claim are lying. However, I am stating as an incontrovertible fact that the thickest files were held on folk who said they'd never claimed. Those folk WERE lying.

Snorri

How can you hold files on people who have never claimed. Why were files opened in the first place?

what I mean is, out of all the money we keep paying IN, either in taxes or council tax, we get very little benefit (don't have kids!) never need a policeman, come to thinkof it never SEE a policeman around my neck of the woods, don't use the library, so the only thing we get are the bins emptied and the local quack or hospital if we need it, but then again having said that, I've paid into my health care for 45 years so why shouldn't I!

That's what I want to know Pensions I understand, but benefit claims?? It's a mystery! Maybe it's just in CASE we ever need to claim, so they can have a good laugh when they tell us to b*g off coz we're not entitled to any , they need a file on us for that I supppose!

We were not holding files on people who had never claimed. These people were LYING, geddit?

Snorri wanders off, shaking his head sadly.............


Snorri

No!!! I havent read this whole thread! Not for a while anyway - lost interest for a while

So these people were registered with your department for something? They
said they'd never claimed before? Claimed what sort of things - benefits? Where these claims before they registered or after? If before did they have previous files?

Let me see.....how simple can I make this?


Example.....

Man wanders into Benefit Office and makes a claim, saying he has never claimed before. We find a file an inch thick there already. This is because he was lying about never having claimed before.


DO YOU UNDERSTAND NOW???????

Snorri (approaching total despair)

Why would someone lie, you either are entitled or your not.

Does not matter if you have claimed before or does it?

When it comes to Unemployment Benefit (a function of National Insurance), there is a limit to how often it can be claimed: the file records this.

Yes, it does matter if someone has claimed before: It saves time (and tax cash) if the payment doesn't have to be calculated again.

Perhaps you would be happier if there was no limit, and taxpayers could go on paying out willy-nilly??


Snorri