MP's Expenses

Description: MP's exploit the system of parliamentary allowances to subsidise their lifestyles and multiple homes.

Newest Review: ... just sign off the claim without paying much attention. However when the claim is for mortgage interest, the vast majority of people would know exactly when there mortgage was paid off and would know to stop claiming the interest back. There is only two possible excuses for this - one is that they are paid far too much and so don't need the expenses and the second excuse is that the claim was ... more

... made on purpose and fraudulently. If you are found guilty of benefit fraud you have to pay back the misappropriated amount, plus a penalty and potentially have a prison sentence too. Plus you'll always have Benefit Fraud on your police record. Yet M...more

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MP's Expenses: Its been proven - politicans really are all out to line thei ... (1642 words)
by - written on 03/06/09 (Very useful, 110 readings)
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In recent weeks, there has been a furore over MP expenses, with the news that MPs have been claiming expenses on everything from moat cleaning, horse manure and mortgages that had already been paid off to pornographic films! Various MPs have tried to explain their actions, blaming everyone from the Fee's Office who supposedly controls these expense claims, to the media and the way they have presented these claims. There was one MP who has stepped down after he claimed expenses for his second home. What's wrong with that? Well his wife was also an MP, and she was claiming their other home as her second home. The result - two homes both paid for by ... Read the complete review

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