Report tenancy fraud

Tenancy fraud can present itself in a number of different ways, here are some of the most common types: 

• abandonment – where the tenant abandons their home and has not notified us of their intentions of not returning to the property. The tenant may be claiming housing benefits and their rent is being paid.

• subletting – where a tenant rents out their home without the knowledge or permission of the landlord. It is against the terms of our tenancy conditions to sublet your home. 

• wrongly claimed succession – where the tenant dies and someone tries to take over or succeed the tenancy when they are not entitled to. 

• false Right Buy or Right To Acquire – where a tenant makes a Right to Buy or Right to Acquire application and gives false information in their application. 

• key selling – where a resident is paid to pass on their keys in return for a one-off payment. 

• obtaining housing by deception – where a tenancy is granted and the tenant has given false information on their housing application. 

• A Bromford tenant is living elsewhere and not using their home 
  • you are suspicious because the tenants of a property keep changing 
  • you are suspicious as there are far too many occupants for the property 
  • you might know that someone has another home that we don’t know about or has given false information in their housing application 
  • you might know that the tenant is not living at the property and only popping back to collect post 

Your help in reporting tenancy fraud is important as you are likely to notice any unusual activity in your neighbourhood. Anything you tell us will be treated in the strictest confidence and reports can be made anonymously if you prefer. 

If you suspect tenancy fraud please don’t delay, get in touch with the fraud team.

We will investigate all reports and take the necessary action. If someone is found to have committed tenancy fraud, that person could lose their tenancy and we could take civil and criminal legal proceedings. 
We will treat the information you provide us with the strictest confidence. Unfortunately, we are not able to able to update you with our progress because we must keep our investigations confidential. However, if you feel that there is further information that we would find useful then please do not hesitate to contact us again. 

If you believe someone is committing tenancy fraud please submit the form below and provide much information as possible.  

In order to enable us to fully investigate this report, it may be necessary for us to contact you to obtain more details. We would never share your details with the resident we are investigating. If you wish to remain anonymous you may leave these fields blank but this may impact our ability to fully investigate and/or take the appropriate action against the fraudulent resident. 

• Housing applications for new tenants are rigorously checked to ensure the information provided is accurate. 

• We carry out regular home visits to all new tenants and regularly check the identity of existing tenants to make sure that the people living at the property are the lawful tenants.  
• We report any concerns of tenancy fraud to local authorities and or the Department of Work and Pensions. 

•  We are members of the National Fraud Initiative and National Anti-Fraud Network. This means we provide information on our residents to the Cabinet Office, who will verify it against information held by local authorities, the Government and the NHS. This is to help detect and prevent fraud against organisations that use public money. 

In order to enable us to fully investigate this report, it may be necessary for us to contact you to obtain more details. We would never share your details with the resident we are investigating. If you wish to remain anonymous you may leave these fields blank but this may impact our ability to fully investigate and/or take the appropriate action against the fraudulent resident.