£58k benefit thief criminal gets away with it
A Corby woman was overpaid almost £60,000 in benefits after failing to tell the authorities she was living with her husband. Anne Klemis, 34, pleaded guilty to two counts of dishonestly making a false...
View Article£49k tax credit thief gets off lightly
A woman who committed a £49,000 tax fraud while employed by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has been given a suspended jail sentence. Naila Ali claimed £49,837 in tax credits over a 13 year period, but...
View ArticleSlap on the wrist for £80k benefit thieves
A couple who fraudulently claimed more than £80,000 in welfare benefits to pay off their debts have escaped jail terms. Donna Spence, 49, and Lee Millard, 45, both from Shoebury, claimed a raft of...
View ArticleRepeat benefit fraud offender is jailed
A teaching assistant who swindled almost £80,000 in state handouts will spend Christmas in jail after a judge warned benefits cheats to expect more than 'a slap on the wrist'.Mother-of-three Maliha...
View ArticleBenefit thief to pay back £1
A woman who pocketed over £50,000 by claiming false benefits and targeting vulnerable people has been ordered to pay back a token amount of £1. (h/t Dave)Maria Pridmore, 36, was jailed for three years...
View ArticleCouncil fraud operation is self-financing
The corporate fraud investigation team of Argyll and Bute Council has recovered almost £80,000 in its first year.It will now continue its anti-fraud activities on a permanent basis as it pays for...
View ArticleVoluntary unemployment in the UK
Andrew Dunn presents research which finds that many unemployed people prefer living on benefits to undertaking jobs which would increase their income, but which they consider unattractive. There is of...
View ArticleHappy new year to benefit fraud readers
The Mail reveals what it claims are the most bizarre benefit frauds of 2016But what's most interesting is its account of the national benefits totals.A record £1 billion was recovered from thousands of...
View ArticleRecidivist benefit thief jailed
A serial benefits cheat who enjoyed holidays in Spain and Egypt has been jailed for a year after she was caught defrauding the public purse out of nearly £35,000.It was the third time Hull...
View ArticleTerrorist benefit fraud?
Berlin police have detained a Tunisian man suspected of eating dinner with Anis Amri the night before he drove a lorry into a crowded Christmas market.Twelve people died in the 19 December attack. Amri...
View ArticleBlack Country benefit fraud
Over £6.5 million worth of benefit fraud was uncovered in the Black Country and South Staffordshire by Department of Work and Pension(DWP) investigators in 2016.And that did not include minor fiddles,...
View ArticleBenefit fraud councillor hasn't resigned yet
A shamed parish councillor, who was convicted last month after falsely claiming tax benefit, was noticeably absent from the first council meeting of the new year.Alex Slater, who sits on Hazlemere...
View ArticleBenefit fraud was part of his toolkit
Self-made millionaire Kate Stewart cried in court as her husband was jailed over a £427,000 mortgage fraud.Graham Stewart, 43, from Aintree, lied about his job and salary and provided forged documents...
View ArticleAnother belated keys amnesty
How slow can councils be?Tenants who have made a false housing application – such as an unauthorised sublet – are being offered a “key amnesty” in a bid to free up local homes.But from February the...
View ArticleCouple claimed they weren't living together
Thirty-seven-year-old Ines Da Silva, of Shenley, and her partner, Gasonu Agogo, 38, have both been given eight months’ suspended prison sentences.Da Silva had claimed she did not know where the father...
View ArticleSoft touch UK
A Turkish pensioner who was handed a council house and £177,000 in benefits after pretending to be Scottish is facing arrest after she failed to turn up for sentence.Wheelchair-bound Catherine Maloney,...
View ArticleCorrupt ex-council officer must pay over £30,000
A former council senior officer has been fined more than £30,000 after facing charges of housing fraud. She was one of two sisters found guilty of unlawfully subletting their social housing...
View ArticleBenefit thief stole over £500,000
A woman who claimed she could only use one arm and so needed disability benefits was caught on video dancing to a Michael Jackson song at a wedding. But actually she was working as a masseuse after...
View ArticleIllegal sub-letter to be pursued for consequential losses
Dog hairs led to the conviction of a woman for subletting her council home in Blackheath for nearly ten years.Greenwich council is flagging up that it has successfully prosecuted a 47-year-old woman...
View ArticleTenant guilty of illegal sub-letting
A Charlton housing association tenant who sublet his home has been prosecuted and ordered to repay more than £4,000.Aldio Raji was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment suspended for 18 months and...
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