Fraud (section 20)

20.1.  You must not carry out or commit any fraud in relation to your tenancy.

Examples of tenancy fraud include, but are not limited to:

a)       Not telling us the truth about your circumstances, either deliberately and/or recklessly, which induced us to grant you the tenancy
b)       Subletting
c)       Claiming welfare benefits for the property, for example, housing benefit and/or Council tax benefit, when you have no entitlement to receive these benefits
d)       Paying your rent or other charges with misappropriated bank cards
e)       Forging documents and/or signatures on documents which are submitted to the Council in relation to your tenancy

20.2.  Tenancy fraud can result in both criminal prosecution and civil legal action being taken against you. The Council can take legal action to seek to repossess the property if you breach the above term, including if you (or somebody acting on your behalf) has been found to have made a statement you know is false or gives us misleading information in order to obtain this tenancy.

20.3.  We participate in the National Fraud Initiative (NFI) data matching exercise. We advise you that the data held by us in respect of your tenancy will be used for cross-system and cross-authority comparison purposes for the prevention and detection of fraud where requested.