£18k benefit thief will have to sell home
A benefit cheat who was caught playing bowls and being a greenkeeper when he claimed he was unable to walk will have to sell his house to pay off an £18,000 legal bill, a court heard. (h/t Dave)John...
View ArticleAngus Council reports recovering £350k
Angus Council has delivered a blow to council tax and benefits cheats which has seen £368,000 of recoverable cash identified and a clutch of council homes seized back.The authority’s Counter Fraud Team...
View ArticleBenefit thief mother avoids jail
An Ingleby Barwick mum has narrowly escaped jail after fraudulently claiming more than £33,000 in benefits.Teesside Crown Court heard how Sarah Linkse applied for tax credits she was not entitled to...
View ArticleBlue badge fraud takes ages to get to court
A builder’s financial problems were worsened when he was fined for using a photocopy of his father’s disabled parking permit to avoid having to feed the meter while he worked in central Croydon. (h/t...
View ArticleRecidivist benefit thief rightly jailed
A cunning mum-of-two stole the identity of a friend and used it to carry out a 10-year benefit fraud. (h/t Dave)On the surface, the 53-year-old claimed to live a chaotic lifestyle...but secretly the...
View ArticleJail for repeat benefit fraud
A benefits cheat who fraudulently claimed more than £100,000 said he was "virtually unable to walk" when he had a full-time job. (h/t Dave)Stanley Murray, 56, who successfully appealed to have his...
View Article£40k benefit thief gets reference from MP & new car
A conman on crutches who pleaded guilty to a £40,000 benefits fraud received a government-funded, £30,000 motability car just weeks after the trial. Ex-soldier Clive Miller, 47, claimed £20,000 of...
View ArticleWhat about the rest of the money?
A wealthy couple claimed more than £43,000 in benefits while having a small fortune in the bank, a court heard. (h/t Dave)Fraudsters Edwin and Lynda Brain profited from housing benefits and pension...
View ArticleHolidaying on benefits
A benefit cheat who fiddled about £40,000 in benefits enjoyed holidays to Egypt and Tenerife at taxpayers' expense before she was caught out, a court heard. (h/t Dave)Lying Kirsty Trotter said that her...
View ArticleMore convictions under Operation Bronze
A housing officer who took a £2,000 backhander every time she processed a fake homelessness claim for illegal immigrants as part of a £2.4million council scam has been jailed. Trudy Ali-Balogun, 55, of...
View ArticleBenefit fraud was part of wider criminality
A Cheltenham couple who cheated the benefits system out of £55,000 as well as passing fake currency in shops and hoarding contraband tobacco in their home have been warned to expect long jail...
View ArticleRich woman claimed benefits
A woman who claimed £14,000 in benefits despite holding assets of more than £130,000 and owning three properties has been spared jail. (h/t Dave)Between October 2010 and April 2013, Rena Griffiths...
View ArticleJet-setting model jailed for benefit fraud
A model who claimed she was so poor she lived on food handouts from her local mosque has been jailed after benefits inspectors uncovered her jetset lifestyle from glamorous holiday snaps posted on...
View ArticleConditional discharge for illegal sub-letting
A man who sublet his social housing property has been prosecuted by Bedford Borough Council.Michael Reynolds, 66, was found guilty of subletting his bpha home in Milburn Road, under the Prevention of...
View ArticleA meaty punishment for £4.6k benefit fraud
A man claimed thousands of pounds in benefits he was not entitled to when he moved from job to job and failed to tell Kirklees Council.Christopher Hall would start employment at a company but then move...
View ArticleBenefit thief's repayment arrangements can't be revealed
A woman working as a clairvoyant fraudulently claimed nearly £27,000 in benefits.Now investigators have made it crystal clear to Amanda Barrymore that despite avoiding a year jail term, all money she...
View ArticleTenancy fraudster must pay £130,000
A council tenant has been ordered to pay Barnet Council almost £130,000 after illegally subletting his council home for 16 years.David Lawal, 56, of Clifton Gardens, Uxbridge, pleaded guilty to five...
View ArticleIllegal sub-letting featured in TV series
A crackdown on social housing residents in Aylesbury Vale who commit tenancy fraud is being featured in a BBC series.Council House Crackdown highlights the growing problem of housing fraud around the...
View Article£140k benefit cheat gets away with it
A terrible example. The case took ages to come to court, and then ... effectively nothing.A benefits cheat mother-of-four who swindled taxpayers out of £140,000 has avoided jail and will be allowed to...
View ArticleIllegal sub-letter to pay back £11,000
A housing association tenant who planted family photos around his flat to fool investigators while illegally subletting it has been handed a suspended prison sentence.Franck Guei, 29, insisted he was...
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