In message <0a7401c74626$4d5f9600$8be89156@Nick>, at 17:27:51 on Thu, 1
Feb 2007, Nick Landau <[log in to unmask]> writes
>The poster was asking whether they had a duty to report on someone
>defrauding another public body (ie the DWP) - either that or they were
>defrauding the funding body - the student would be warned that they
>would inform the awarding body.
The original quote made a leap between "only attends one class a week
for one hour out of his full time programme so that he can continue to
claim housing benefit", and the concept that this must count as fraud.
If that kind of attendance would normally cause the student to be
"expelled" from the college, a continued benefits claim would of course
be fraud. But if it doesn't, and they still have him on their books as a
full-time student, I reckon it's more of a loophole than a fraud.
Yes, I agree that the rules should probably exclude that kind of thing
(both in terms of the money both the student and the college receives
from public funds), but rules is rules.
--
Roland Perry
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