Owner of 3 houses must repay £143,500 for 22-year benefit fraud
A woman who owns three houses has been ordered to pay back £143,500 after fraudulently claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance, housing benefit and council tax benefit over a span of 22 years.Josephine Aidoo,...
View ArticleNo jail for £130k "deaf" benefit thieves
Two company directors who pocketed tens of thousands of pounds in taxpayers' money from bogus claims for sign language interpreters have avoided prison. (h/t Dave)Tracy Holliday, 39, and Ian Johnston,...
View ArticleBenefit thief's bail cancelled
Handcuffed to a prison officer, wealthy benefits cheat Caroline Foxley headed to custody following fears she was preparing to flee to Russia.The 59-year-old was suspected of trying to leave the country...
View ArticleLambeth Council house was sublet
A south-west London house which was sublet for about £40,000 a year had an electricity cable running through a tree branch inside the property, a council has revealed.Lambeth Council said the wire was...
View Article"Single" parent jailed
A 36-year-old woman from Margate has been jailed for 8 months after she pleaded guilty to wrongfully claiming tax credits and benefits for 4 years.Emma Truscott claimed tax credits and other benefits...
View ArticleCouncil to continue to employ £22k benefit thief
A Liverpool council employee caught falsely claiming £22,000 in benefits is set to keep her job.Jacqueline Simpson swindled more than £22,000 of taxpayers’ money through dishonest Disability Living...
View ArticleDundee updates its benefit fraud figures
Fraud investigations at Dundee City Council were down, now they're up, apparently.The number of fraud allegations received by Dundee City Council has increased by 25% over the last year. 769 cases of...
View ArticleLeicester Council despairs of £9.5m housing benefit debt
Most of this is said to be due to error rather than fraud. (h/t David)City council bosses have written off nearly £3 million of debt resulting from people in Leicester being paid too much in housing...
View ArticleDaytime curfew for £68k benefit fraud
A Redditch man who fiddled more than £68,000 in benefits has been given a suspended jail sentence and will only be allowed out in daytime for emergencies and pre-arranged medical appointments for a...
View ArticleCalculated benefit fraud leads to prison
A callous fraudster who “wickedly” conned an elderly woman out of her life savings and swindled the tax payer out of £120,000 in false benefit claims has been jailed. (h/t Dave)David Williams, from...
View Article"Single parent" benefit thief thumbs her nose at the courts
A benefit cheat who fraudulently claimed more than £40,000 and failed to attend court on ten occasions has received a suspended jail term. (h/t Dave)Julie Watkins, from Rugby, was finally arrested...
View ArticleOsborne accused of discouraging marriage
Following recent tax changes, a mother of one with a part-time job bringing in £5,000 a year would be £7,295 a year worse off if the child’s father lived with them, an increase of £70 in the notional...
View ArticleBenefit thief keeps her primary teaching job
Only in Wales...?A Llanelli teacher who helped her son fiddle £11,000 in benefits by pretending he was job hunting in Britain — while he was on an exotic 18-month tour of the Far East — will be allowed...
View Article"We rely on anonymous referrals from the general public"
A benefits cheat who dishonestly siphoned off almost £12,000 from the public purse has been handed a suspended jail sentence and ordered to pay the money back. (h/t Dave)Tracy Miller, of Pilsley, near...
View ArticleTax credit thief mother escapes jail
A mother has been spared jail after she cheated the taxpayer out of more than £30,000 by lying about her income and personal circumstances.Beautician Rebecca Eddishaw was given a chance after a court...
View ArticleHouseowner benefit thief sent money to Pakistan
A benefits cheat smuggled the stolen cash to his family overseas to help pay off ‘gambling debts’. (h/t A Reader)Jhan Zaib fleeced £17,351 from the system by claiming he was an unemployed single dad on...
View ArticleCornwall starts to catch up with illegal sub-letting
Only last month we wrote that news of keys amnesties had filtered through to Cornwall. Now someone there has admitted illegal sub-letting. In the tradition of Cornwall, though, she was given a...
View ArticleWolverhampton reports benefit fraud totals
Convicted benefits cheats illegally claimed more than £300,000 in Wolverhampton in the past year. (h/t Dave)Wolverhampton City Council made a total of 77 benefit fraud sanctions between April 1, 2013...
View ArticleHuge amounts of social housing fraud in Redbridge
A series of investigations into housing fraud have culminated in a number of properties being recovered by Redbridge council. The crackdown has saved it £702,000 in the last 12 months, according to the...
View ArticleThis cheat didn't prosper
A Kensington doctor, who pleaded guilty to charges under the Fraud Act 2006 after he sublet his council home for profit, has been given a community order of 135 hours unpaid work and ordered to pay...
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