[Matthew JN]

Anyone seen the mail website story today about excuses that people who have been claiming benefits fraudulently have been known to say.

They have to use a window cleaning one in their headline don't they ?

Yet again we get stereotyped by the press. 

[Pope vader]

i know, its a disgrace, i recently had to lose a street worth of work, as i found out one of them worked for the dole,  they should be out catching real criminals,

[G Griffin]

I know, they are making it harder and harder for us to sign on and work  .

[mci services]

If you register as an alchy you get extra benefits top tip

[Tom White]

If you register as an alchy you get extra benefits top tip

Where do I sign up?

[mci services]

If you register as an alchy you get extra benefits top tip

Where do I sign up?

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/

[G Griffin]

If you register as an alchy you get extra benefits top tip

Where do I sign up?

Just tell `um where you were born and you`ll be alright  .

[Londoner]

We joke about it but its a real image problem. When I said I reported dodgy looking window cleaners some on here got very defensive. I wonder why?

[Pope vader]

where they trad vince

[A & J Owen Window Cleaning]

we are a easy target for these stupid people. we either are classed as house breakers or thieving little scroats. had a few comments on that myself. in directly of course.

[groundhog]

We joke about it but its a real image problem. When I said I reported dodgy looking window cleaners some on here got very defensive. I wonder why?

Coz nobody likes a grass!! 

[mikecam]

We joke about it but its a real image problem. When I said I reported dodgy looking window cleaners some on here got very defensive. I wonder why?

I don't recall you saying "dodgy" looking window cleaners. I recall you saying ANY window cleaners. Infact here it is verbatim!!!
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Collected two different new leaflets this week from my customers who had saved them for me. Never heard of either of them before.
Yesterday driving less than a half a mile from my home I saw a new van working at a house. Looked like a pure freedom setup, makes a change, the new ones are usually Ionics.
Last week I saw another new van working around the area.

It must be spring. Now photos of the new vans and the new leaflets will be going off to HMRC which I do routinely now. Suprising how many of them you never see again.
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If new vans and systems are a real image problem then god help us !!! 

[the bfg]

I remember the 4th time I got caught,  I was cleaning a christian aid building when I was caught,  lucky for me I was quick on my feet and said the reason I was cleaning it is because its charity work 

us damn scousers eh 

[idealrob]

I blame the gov & DSS, you see loads of window cleaners, on the streets, most striaght hones businesses, but lots of dole boys, so why dont the just stop and check on the street. Its not rocket science is it, or get an external company doing the checks, with payment based on results, but as said thousand of years ago " man can not direct his own step"

idealrob

[G Griffin]

I remember when I got caught scratching on and working too; it was all over the local papers.
The shame it brought on me and my family was awful. It wasn`t so much the signing on but the looks and comments I got when people discovered that I had actually stooped to cleaning windows  .

[the bfg]

I blame the gov & DSS, you see loads of window cleaners, on the streets, most striaght hones businesses, but lots of dole boys, so why dont the just stop and check on the street. Its not rocket science is it, or get an external company doing the checks, with payment based on results, but as said thousand of years ago " man can not direct his own step"

idealrob

spot on chief,  the goverment should set up a quango to look into this 

[tacky]

i love mango s

[matthewprice]

as we have to have a licence it is harder to work on the side /and i think should be easier to check for insurance/tax.

[Johnny B]

I once got reported for working and 'signing on' by a vindictive neighbour. Having nothing to hide, I invited the bods around to check us out.

They clearly expected to find us guilty, and were initially quite aggressive with us.

When it came to us showing them our books, however, they could not believe how well organized they were (every customer payment being itemised individually). They said they had never seen such well kept records before, especially by a window cleaner.

I then pointed out that these could be further cross referenced with the books I carry with me when on the glass.

They left completely satisfied, and actually apologized for having to check us out in the first place.

John   

[mikecam]

I once got reported for working and 'signing on' by a vindictive neighbour. Having nothing to hide, I invited the bods around to check us out.

Exactly who did you invite round to check you out?

They clearly expected to find us guilty, and were initially quite aggressive with us.

Who did? Someone you invited to check you out was aggresive?

When it came to us showing them our books, however, they could not believe how well organized they were (every customer payment being itemised individually). They said they had never seen such well kept records before, especially by a window cleaner.

I then pointed out that these could be further cross referenced with the books I carry with me when on the glass.

They left completely satisfied, and actually apologized for having to check us out in the first place. 

Thats me flabbergasted. They apologised after you invited them round? Come on tell us who it was who came to check you and roughly what year was this?