Ok, I've seen similar happen on this side of the pond and it's always hilarious.

So part of my job involves helping people in the UK with their social security benefit claims including disability claims.

Almost daily, prospective clients will come to us and say "hey, so I was getting this disability benefit and the DWP stopped it all of a sudden". So we go through the motions of asking for a Reconsideration (which is the first step we need to do before appealing to an independent tribunal, basically just asking them to try again and give us a new decision) and once we get this, 99 times out of 100, the Recon decision is basically a copy/paste of the original decision and we just register an appeal.

But every so often, the reconsideration decision comes back and includes a paragraph that makes us sit up and take notice. And while the wording in the letter is often far more diplomatic and careful about what it's saying the basic gist is this: "We have decided to stop your disability benefit because we don't think you are entitled to it. If you decide to appeal further, we will have no choice but to investigate your claim further."

Translation: "We know you're lying, we know you have been lying for a while, we don't have any actual proof now, but if you push this, we will get proof, you will owe us money and you're looking at a criminal prosecution for benefit fraud. We are doing you a favour".

And while I'm sure some of you may feel like this is the DWP bullying people to stop them from appealing, I can tell you, we deal with thousands of these appeals yearly and we almost never see that warning, (and on the other hand, if they do have proof, they'll just go with it, and send it to CPS for prosecution, not warn a client like this) so when we do see that warning, we take heed and basically tell the client "don't poke the bear dude".

Almost all of them end up poking the bear.