Benefit fraud checks fall in Rotherham
Rotherham Council's publicity of benefit fraud in its area manages to say nothing about total levels of fraud. It concentrates on seccessful prosecutions for housing and council tax fraud, which rose...
View ArticleDWP pats its back but tip-off ended benefit fraud
A benefits cheat who received £134,000 in welfare payments spent six months living in Goa undergoing plastic surgery, despite claiming she could not leave the house has been jailed for 27 months.Karen...
View ArticleScandalously light benefit fraud sentences
A couple who fraudulently claimed £120,000 in benefits have been spared jail because they have four children. (h/t Dave)Amanda Casserley, 34, and Andrew Hayes, 39, were told they should be sent to jail...
View ArticleAnother slow benefit fraud case
A married couple have been jailed for carrying out a seven year £188k benefit fraud which helped buy properties and finance mortgage repayments. (h/t Dave)Nicole Mwamba, 48, was sentenced to 30 months...
View ArticleWelfare reform in the air in Norway
Norway’s new government minister in charge of labour and welfare issues is poised to put some new demands on those collecting welfare benefits. Robert Eriksson thinks young passive welfare recipients...
View ArticleLabour councillor fined for benefit fraud
A Labour councillor in Staffordshire has been fined £725 after admitting benefit fraud.Ian Hollinshead, 55, pleaded guilty to failing to register a change in his work circumstances for the purposes of...
View Article'Shake-up threatens benefit fraud investigations'
Housing benefit fraud investigations could suffer when they are handed to the Government, Oxford City Council’s deputy leader has warned.The council will lose the powers to a Government body from...
View ArticleCovert surveillance for £13k benefit fraud
DJ Paul Lowery spun the discs at Ramside Hall Hotel, near Durham City, two nights a week.But he was dishonestly claiming government Access to Work grants aimed at allowing him employ a support worker...
View ArticleLight sentence for £100k benefit thief
A man who is estimated to have defrauded taxpayers by more than £100,000 has paid back money owed to Huntingdonshire District Council and Luminus.John Bolton, formerly of Springfield, Somersham, had...
View ArticleWell done, Barnet!
Barnet Borough Council says it has prevented housing fraud worth £11.9million in the past year.The authority’s corporate anti-fraud team discovered millions of pounds of fraudulent activity relating to...
View ArticleBenefits cheat from Cheshunt to repay £24,000
A Cheshunt man who had a six-figure sum in savings fraudulently claimed more than £24,000 in benefits. (h/t Dave)Alan Marshall failed to declare seven bank accounts containing £66,600, which, over the...
View ArticleConditional discharge for Tory benefit fraud councillor
A councillor has admitted receiving housing benefit while failing to declare his earnings.Windsor and Maidenhead councillor Peter Lawless was caught after an anonymous tip-off from a resident to the...
View Article'Abroad fraud' figures recycled again
In February we looked at 'abroad fraud', which the government estimated at £84 million in 2012/13. As we pointed out then, the problem with publicising big numbers for 'abroad fraud' is that they then...
View Article£39k benefit thief has to sell home to repay debt
We noted that the aptly named Dawn Pinchen got off lightly for a £39,000 benefit fraud in April, but she has now been back in court for a "proceeds of crime" hearing (h/t Dave), having so far repaid...
View ArticleBenefit thief stole £70k while running £2.6m property empire
A benefit cheat who fleeced the taxpayer out of out of more than £70,000 while running £2.6 million property empire and raking in £150,000 a year in rents has been jailed. (h/t Dave)Seema Bassi, 49,...
View ArticleJail for mosque committee man in £140k benefits fraud
A Bedford man been jailed for 16 months for stealing almost £140,000 in benefits over 14 years.Alas Miah was sentenced at Luton Crown Court after admitting seven offences relating to benefit fraud...
View ArticleTwo generations of benefit fraudsters cheated £160k from the public purse
Two generations of benefit fraudsters cheated £160,000 in public funds. (h/t VNCounterFraud)Businessman Denis Tracey, 64, appeared in the same dock as his son David and his partner Cheryl...
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A Saltash woman has been jailed for 10 months after she admitted fraudulently claiming £80,000 of benefits over a nine year period. (h/t VNCounterFraud)Julie Foster, of Babis Farm Close, Saltash...
View ArticleSentence deferred on benefit thief
Unemployed Shaun Phillimore, 44, raked in Job Seeker's Allowance and council tax benefits for more than four years. Yet all the time he owned three properties and kept two of them secret from the DWP....
View ArticleMayor stole benefits
A town mayor who claimed he could barely walk to claim benefits has been spared jail.Brian Griffin, 76, was caught on film conning taxpayers out of £13,000 when he was filmed by fraud surveillance...
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