Saeed Khaliif, Britain's king of benefits fraud.
When it comes to beating the system, it takes real skill and nerves of steel to perpetuate the best in welfare fraud. Well, for one family on benefits, their gaming of the system is less related to actually lying to the system and more related to simply beating the system before new rules fall into place. Until April, the British government would pay for housing for families on benefits, no matter the cost. However, when the housing benefits bill soared from £14 billion in 2000 to £21 billion in 2010, a cap on rent of £400 was enacted in April of this year; however, if you managed to move before the cap was put into place? You’re scott free.
Enter Saeed Khaliif. The Khaliif family moved from Coventry to London, England, where they settled immediately into a £2000 a week lease at a home valued at over £2 million pounds, or $3.26 million US dollars. The beat part of that whole situation for the Khaliif? The British government is paying for she khaliif’s multi-million-dollar housing bill, which is located in the tony West Hampstead area, near the homes of celebrities like Emma Thompson and a stones’ throw from trendy West End Lane.
“It’s unfair on taxpayers that some claimants are in large homes most working families can’t afford. It is vital we lower housing benefit costs. That is why we have reformed housing benefit. The new rules came into force in April. As their claims come up for renewal people on housing benefit will have to make the same choices as people in work about where they can afford to live,” said a spokesman for the Department of Work and Pensions, which oversees the housing benefit.
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