Government accessing PayPal

[AllisonJ]

So I have a friend who was selling some items privately on Facebook over the past few years. On average she made about £5 per week. She recently got brought into a fraud meeting with the job centre and they had pages and pages of transactions and payments received over the past 2 years, print outs of her PayPal account. Have they actually gone into her PayPal and printed it ? Is this even allowed ? This is a UK question. Thank you

[kernowlass]

@AllisonJ

The tax office and any government department from whom she is claiming benefits regularly ask paypal for information on their clients or if that client has an account. They are legally allowed to do so as part of tax evasion and benefit claimants.

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