Looking across the documents collected together over the years, a gem from the NFI leaps out at me.
Reader, you will know that making a false or misleading statement to gain a financial advantage would be evidence of fraud (but would need mens rea proving of course). Common sense and the training of even a very junior solicitor at the Audit Commission should tell us that what a person is and is not 'claiming' is an important matter.
The point was several times to the NFI that it was false to state that certain 25% discount recipients were 'claiming' to live alone, or 'claiming to be entitled on the basis that they lived alone' and other 'claiming to be the only adult who counted, with all other residents disregarded'.
In a true gem of NFI nonsense, Mrs Akram replied that this point was 'merely pedantic'. You use the word 'claim' she said. Why shouldn't we?
