Strangers recently registered for council tax and utility bills at grandfather’s hous

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Dec 29th 2013, 6:42 pm

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Re: Strangers recently registered for council tax and utility bills at grandfather’s

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Originally Posted by old.sparkles

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet or not, but you might also want to contact the credit reference agencies to make sure no one else is applying for credit at your grandfathers address - Experian and Equifax I think are the main ones - and should be able to help.

I work for a Building Society in UK, and unfortunetly although this could be a mistake, the fact that 2 different companies have his address could mean the start of a scam being processed, and definitely recommend that you/ your grandad puts a note on his experian file , with a password so that if anyone applies or credit in his name/ address the pass word has got to be given. You could do this on his behalf on their website if he is not Internet savvy.

Dec 30th 2013, 4:46 am

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Re: Strangers recently registered for council tax and utility bills at grandfather’s

Maybe check with land registry to find out who's name is on the title deed. Hopefully he has not signed anything recently not knowing what he was signing.

http://www.landregistry.gov.uk/media...or-home-owners

http://www.theguardian.com/money/201...d-compensation

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7971995.stm

http://www.findlaw.co.uk/law/propert...cs/500323.html

Jan 8th 2014, 11:08 am

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Re: Strangers recently registered for council tax and utility bills at grandfather’s

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Or claiming from several addresses? NHS and welfare have always been easy targets, hence why all the changes have to happen.

It's about time we moved into getting biometrics for claimants and DNA for any children they say are theirs; although there are proposals in the pipeline of limiting the number of children per claim and giving benefits on a benefit card, instead of cash to the claimant. The benefit card will have restricitons on what claimants buy and where the can use it.

I so agree with all that you say!!

Jan 9th 2014, 3:40 am

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Re: Strangers recently registered for council tax and utility bills at grandfather’s

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I so agree with all that you say!!

That would be an appalling thing to do, and the damage caused would outweigh the benefit.

Jan 9th 2014, 7:09 am

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Re: Strangers recently registered for council tax and utility bills at grandfather’s

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Originally Posted by Editha

That would be an appalling thing to do, and the damage caused would outweigh the benefit.

Your view only. There are too many welfare cheats in this world and if you were a genuine welfare recipient having biometric data to identify you and your dependents and having vouchers to spend in supermarkets etc would not worry you.