Do I report a family member to DWP for benefit fraud?

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Nevertheless, you have no knowledge of this particular person’s disability, and other than working as an observer, you have no first hand knowledge of this industry as a practitioner.
It is also not clear exactly how well the O.P. knows the disabled person or how familiar he is with this person’s disability.

There are also scores of examples of corporations denying people disability payments, and even medical treatment by manipulating the system. I believe this abuse far exceeds fraud by individuals. If you have time, read up on the “Lyme Wars” where physicians with conflicts of interest in one medical society wrote bad guidelines that have been used by insurance companies to deny treatment to so many people that a state attorney general filed antitrust actions against the corruption.

There are also influences in society that effect our judgement and decision making and these influences are poorly understood except in a few areas. For example, something seems to draw people to witch hunts against vulnerable people especially when they can hide in a group. Environmental influences make some people prone to violence when people not under such influence look for ways to avoid conflict. Something draws some people to bully others, likely their own exposure to bullying. In most of these cases, effects are far removed from the cause. Being bullied as a child can make a person try to act out the same behavior later in life. In fact, two of the greatest contributors to 20th Century genocide were abused as children (Stalin and Hitler).

It is important to be aware of these influences and resist them rather than act out our own issues on vulnerable people.

 

[Vic_Taltrees_UK]

Yes…

It seems once a doctor signs off they are never seen again by the government doctor…or it is a long time later, as they have been deemed disabled for life.

… This is not so in the UK

As for family discord…I would think it would be reported anonymously…so that comment upthread has no merit.

This is probably so.

As for compassion, I would side with the honest working people…there is such a thing as partial disability, and programs to help the formerly disabled get back to work.

If a person is destitute, there are other social programs to help them too, so it may be a matter of shifting benefits to another program.
In an honest manner.

This is probably not the case in the UK.

Letting people know there are other options is helping them…more so then letting them defraud and live in sin constantly.

Micha3l, you haven’t said how well you know this relative. Pray much, talk to other relatives very discreetly. Most people with coordination trouble have received severe trauma from family and strangers. The professions don’t recognise or deal with trauma, at all. You haven’t said you know the low down about what doctors have said. It sounds like the dynamics in your wider family are in urgent need to total overhaul. If questioned by police about why you didn’t shop this person, you need to say - provisionally - that you didn’t understand what people were telling you.

It’s probably that she wouldn’t know how to cope on less money, and no-one would be willing to show her. Proper OTs are non existent. Probably all the family relationships are too bad.

And it’s a fair bet it comes to far less than £178,000. Pray much, urgently!