Just how difficult can it be to claim benefits?

I don't know where you get the idea the benefits they received was being abused .

Like I said there no report the poor children was starving or if they had any gas/electric supply.

The children seemed clothed im not excusing the way these poor children was treated but fail to see what money got to do with it

And like I said what has the money got to do with it

Are you saying if they received 20.000 a year or a million a year these scum would of treated there children better or lived in better conditions

I sense we're moving in circles, however. The parents received £84,000 a year in benefits, don't you think the authorities whether that's the council, DWP or some other government agency, had a responsibility not only to the children, but to ensure the benefit system is not abused.

I sense we're moving in circles, however. The parents received £84,000 a year in benefits, don't you think the authorities whether that's the council, DWP or some other government agency, had a responsibility not only to the children, but to ensure the benefit system is not abused.

www.google.com/url?q=https://www.gov.uk/incapacity-benefit&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjyh6q0yp_7AhWZi1wKHRxTBgoQFnoECAsQAg&usg=AOvVaw1VRcqseLInZ0MhVNk5Qwye


www.google.com/url?q=https://www.gov.uk/employment-support-allowance/eligibility&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjyh6q0yp_7AhWZi1wKHRxTBgoQFnoECAkQAg&usg=AOvVaw22jUHtkfR0oRi8cyQRyRJo


Yea there no mention of benefits fraud in media but like steve and andrewbrown pointed out that benefits are capped at 20, 000
There is the exception if you claim a sickness benefits but even if you claim them there no where near a extra 65, 000 a year if you look at my links above it would proof that.


Has for the outrageous figure the papers claim the family received where on earth did they get there information from.

Because the Benefits agency certainly not of given them any information because its against the data protection act

Couple who claimed £84,000-a-year benefits let children live in absolute squalor.

A couple who neglected seven children and 36 dogs they kept in a filthy three-bed house while ‘frittering away’ £84,000 a year in benefits have been jailed. Christopher Bennett, 35, and Gemma Brogan, 41, were arrested after officers called to a domestic incident at their property in Eastbourne, Sussex, found the kids living in ‘shocking and repugnant’ conditions. They later told a court how they were met with a ‘stench of faeces and urine’ leaving them ‘unable to breathe normally’ as well as a ‘deafening’ din coming from the dozens of malnourished dogs barking and leaping around.

metro.co.uk/2022/11/07/couple-on-84000-a-year-benefits-let-girl-sleep-covered-in-dog-poo-17714033/

The fact that a couple can claim £84,000 a year, that's £7,000 a month in benefits is incredible. But the council quite obviously don't do any follow up checks. I would have thought if a council were shelling out so much in benefits, they may have an interest in how it's been spent, but clearly not. Had they been more diligent the children and dogs could have been rescued a damned sight sooner.