April court hearing followed up
The Dellaway case - which we highlighted way back in April - grinds slowly on.Now she is back in court over how much she should repay. But the hearing has been adjourned till January.A childminder who...
View ArticleBenefit fraudster had £55,000 in the bank
A man who claimed benefit payments despite having more than £55,000 in savings has been ordered to pay back the money he was overpayed, but has avoided jail.Paul Shinners had pleaded guilty to a charge...
View ArticleImmigrant benefit thief stole £244,000
A benefits fraudster conned 22 councils out of £244,000 in fraudulent housing benefit claims.Tania Amisi, who lived in Chelsea Harbour, an upmarket district of London, tricked local authorities for six...
View ArticleEast Devon discovers keys amnesty
It's amazing how long it takes some councils to get round to offering a keys amnesty. It's quck, it's cheap, and it offers huge savings.Tenants who illegally sublet their council houses are being given...
View ArticleAstonishingly slow investigation of long term benefit fraud
A benefit cheat falsely claimed more than £55,000 while receiving money from her husband every month.Sharon Calder was claiming several benefits despite receiving more than £1,000 a month from her...
View ArticleTax credit fraud investigator sentenced for tax credit fraud
A Co Antrim woman employed by HMRC to track down tax credit cheats has been handed a suspended jail sentence ... for stealing more than £34,000 in tax credits.Laura Southern, 36, from Lisburn, worked...
View ArticleImmigrant benefit thief stole £38,000
A Somali refugee scammed nearly £39,000 in benefits after secretly returning home because he missed the sunshine.Mohamed Qoomaal, 72, claimed asylum here 15 years ago claiming he feared for his life in...
View ArticleJail for long-term benefit fraud
A Pembroke Dock man has been jailed for stealing £121,874 in a long-running benefit fraud.Andrew Johnstone, 66, admitted four offences of defrauding his council and the Department for Work and...
View ArticlePensioner in £50k benefit fraud
A Swansea pensioner who claimed her husband left home three days after they moved into a new house went on to cohabit with him for eight years and fraudulently claim £50,000 in benefits, a court has...
View ArticleScaffolder was "disabled" benefit cheat
Benefit cheat William Marshall pocketed more than £50,000 in handouts - while working as a scaffolder.The 64-year-old claimed disability living allowance (DLA) and employment support allowance (ESA) on...
View ArticlePensioner gets away with long term benefit fraud
A benefit cheat who pocketed more than £72,000 he was not entitled to by pretending he was not married has been spared jail.Pensioner Louis Bell claimed state handouts for 15 years or more on the basis...
View ArticleAnother pensioner benefit cheat nabbed
Benefit cheat pensioner Kenneth Hickman claimed more than £21,000 – despite owning a second house.An investigation revealed the ‘greedy’ 69-year-old had a home in Bucknall valued at £184,950 while he...
View ArticleBenefit cheat claimed rent for Bolton house he owned
A benefit cheat continued to claim thousands of pounds to cover rent for a house he had already bought.Anil Kala began legitimately claiming benefits in September, 2013, but the following year large...
View ArticleThe writing is on the wall (or the form)
Artificial intelligence will be used to clamp down on fraudsters claiming millions of pounds of bogus benefit payments.The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) said its new state-of-the-art algorithms...
View ArticleBenefit-cheat big and get away with it
A benefits cheat who stole more than £100,000 over ten years will not have to pay any of it back, a court has ordered. (h/t Dave)Linda Brown, from Blackbird Leys, Oxford, was spared jail for the...
View ArticleRepeat offender in £176,000 benefits fraud
Here is a very bad case of benefit fraud. The offence was described as unsophisticated, yet she got away with it for eight years and netted £176,000. And she was already subject to a suspended sentence...
View ArticleIllegal immigrant in £32k benefit fraud
A judge has slammed the Home Office for failing to deport an illegal immigrant who entered the UK on the back of a lorry to illegally claim £32,000 in benefits.Kerim Koroglu, 49, pocketed handouts he...
View ArticlePredictable left-wing benefit fraud bias from The Independent
More than 280,000 public tip-offs on benefit fraud in the past two years have resulted in no action being taken against a claimant due to lack of evidence, The Independent can disclose.The revelation...
View ArticleAnother slow benefit fraud investigation
Fraudster Alan Surrey pocketed £38,000 in benefits while working as a door-to-door collector and care worker - despite claiming he was too unfit to have a job.The 64-year-old received the public...
View ArticlePolish benefit fraudster took £91,000
A benefits fraudster who cheated the taxpayer out of more than £100,000 has been spared jail.Burnley Crown Court heard how mother-of-three Agnieszka Pryzbylska fraudulently claimed £91,411 in tax...
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