Jail for £51k benefit thief
On Thursday 13 March at Guildford Crown Court, Julie Watkinson, formerly of Lansdowne Road, Purley and Hillbury Road, Whyteleafe and currently at Wheelwright Court, Horley, was given a twenty week...
View ArticleNot much punishment for substantial benefit fraud
A benefit fraudster from South Tyneside pretended her partner was her landlord so they could get benefits they were not entitled to. (h/t Dave)Claire Wilson convinced the authorities Kevin Hunter was...
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A benefit cheat has been forced to repay the money she illegally claimed and ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work.Pamela Graziani, 61, from Windsor, also known as Pamela Ayton, was handed the...
View ArticleCouple committed systematic benefit fraud
A man has been jailed for eight months for brazenly claiming more than £25,000 in benefits while running his own alarm company. The bulk of that money came from Kirklees Council.Terence Edward Leach...
View ArticleNo jail for long term £30k benefit thief
A benefit cheat from Partington was handed a suspended sentence after dishonestly obtaining more than £30,000. (h/t Dave)Tracy Murray, 46, of Hampshire Road, was sentenced to 52 weeks imprisonment,...
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A former UKIP councillor and wife who swindled £25,000 of taxpayers' money in a two year benefit fraud have avoided jail. He remains a Cambridgeshire county councillor.And a Kingston councillor who...
View Article£100,000 benefit fraud couple try to hide their identities as they face jail
Mother of five Lesley Isobel Jones fiddled more than £108,000 in benefits while driving around in a BMW with a personalised number plate.The 50 year old took her family on an all-inclusive holiday to...
View ArticleLight sentence for £57k benefit fraud
A Chesterfield benefits cheat has been given 161 years to repay £57,405– after keeping quiet about the new man in her life.Mother of four Sandra Kelwick was ordered to obey a three-month curfew as...
View ArticleFather pays off daughter's benefit fraud debt
The father of a Chepstow woman who fraudulently claimed more than £27,000 in housing benefit has remortgaged his home in order to pay back the taxpayer.His daughter Natasha Willetts, 28, claimed £650 a...
View ArticleSwedish agency gets more benefit fraud tip-offs
Sweden's social insurance agency recovered 170 million kronor last year (notes Dave) after it tightened its reins on catching benefit fraudsters, thanks largely to a healthy dose of snitching from...
View Article£76k benefit fraud mother gets away with it
A mother-of-five who committed benefit fraud by claiming £76,000 she was not entitled to has escaped jail.Stacey Bailey, from Harold Hill, began claiming income support in 2004 and continued pocketing...
View Article"New" benefit fraud measures include some repackaging
Welfare cheats will be forced to sell their homes and pay higher fines to reimburse taxpayers for the money they have wrongly claimed, under plans to tackle benefit fraud.Hundreds of thousands of...
View ArticleBenefits criminal returned to UK for prison sentence
We have met Ms Ferkova before, and here she is again.A Czech fraudster who flew vulnerable foreign nationals to Britain so they could falsely claim £1.2million in benefits has been jailed after...
View ArticleOf course this benefit fraudster was guilty
A globe-trotting benefits cheat who travelled the world while claiming she was agoraphobic and housebound has been told to expect jail.'Agoraphobic'Tracy Johnson claimed to be so unwell that she could...
View ArticleGovt announces new powers against social housing fraud
Councils have been given the power to access personal information about people suspected of tenancy fraud. The new measures will allow councils to access information from banks, building societies,...
View ArticleClaimant "could hardly walk" but holidayed in China
A benefits cheat who claimed over £35,000 in disability payments was caught when she posted a picture of herself on the Great Wall of China on Facebook. (h/t Dave)Dawn Pinchen from Annitsford,...
View ArticleLight sentence for benefit thief with teenage daughter
A lesbian mother-of-one pocketed almost £50,000 in benefits by claiming she was an unemployed single parent despite being in a civil partnership with another woman. (h/t Dave)Karen Armitage, 42, even...
View ArticleFenland District Council updates on benefit fraud
Eight benefit cheats have been successfully prosecuted in the past year and six more cases are in the pipeline as Fenland District Council continues to pursue suspected fraud.The amount of overpayments...
View ArticleBenefit thief has months to pay over £60,000
A benefit cheat from Slough was ordered to pay back more than £53,000 in overpaid benefits.Sarah Darby deliberately hid the extent of her income from Slough Borough Council and received £49,134.41 in...
View ArticleEncouraging start for Claimant Commitment
The claimant commitment is really a contract between an unemployed person and his or her “work coach” at Jobcentre Plus, though government lawyers refused to let it be called a “contract”. It turns out...
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