Woman fined for subletting housing association flat
A woman who illegally sublet her housing association flat while living abroad has been forced to pay back nearly £10,000 she made in profit.Esperance Hakizimana had been renting out her flat in Rose...
View ArticleLight sentences for blatant benefit fraud
A middle class couple who own two homes worth £660,000 and drive a £25,000 convertible BMW raked in £80,000 in benefits while claiming one had a bad back.Yvonne Unsworth, 46, and partner Warren Myers,...
View ArticleBenefit fraud investigator fiddled tax credits
A Stourbridge woman who worked as a benefit fraud investigator has been warned she could be facing time behind bars after she fiddled nearly £19,000 from the system.Tracey Griffiths - a mother of three...
View ArticleBenefit fraud mother hid savings from benefits
A “dedicated” mother who spent years saving up her benefit payments to help out her son may be forced to pay the money back.Kayann Phillips is a carer for her 23-year-old son and, instead of spending...
View ArticleHMRC think tax credit fraud will rise!
HMRC is struggling to control tax credit fraud and the “cracks are showing”, MPs have said. Error and fraud in tax credits cost the taxpayer £1.3bn in 2016-17 alone, and the department expects the rate...
View Article'Thoroughly dishonest'£12k benefit cheat did not declare second house
A £12,000 benefit cheat who kept a second home secret from the government has been branded greedy and dishonest - but avoided prison.Razean Afsar, 55, was told by Teesside's most senior judge: "You are...
View ArticleBenefit thief didn't declare her boyfriend was living with her
A benefit cheat claimed nearly £14,000 in wrongful payments after keeping quiet that her boyfriend was living with her.He "came back on the scene" and she knew she should have declared the arrangement...
View ArticleBenefit fraudster told council she was single
A benefit cheat illegally pocketed more than £10,000 after telling a council she was single.Laura Iredale claimed the housing benefit for more than two years from Newcastle City Council.The 30-year-old...
View ArticleMerseyside's worst benefits cheats 2018
In 2018, benefit cheats, who swindled the public purse out of hundreds of thousands of pounds, were caught and then exposed once they'd gone to court. Often, they had got away with their fraud for...
View ArticleCouncils 'failing' to prosecute blue badge abusers
A disability charity says it is "disgraceful" councils are failing take action against people misusing blue-badge parking permits.Analysis by the Press Association found 94 out of 152 (62%) local...
View ArticleMan admits benefit fraud
A 52 year old man has avoided jail after pleading guilty to committing benefit fraud.Peter Brown, from Darwen, admitted six charges of dishonesty in which he failed to notify the Department of Work and...
View ArticleBenefit cheat weeps throughout hearing
A benefit cheat who illegally claimed more than £10,000 while working at a care home broke down in tears as she was sentenced.Jodie Watson claimed she had a bad back and required medical treatment, a...
View ArticleRecidivist gets suspended sentence for £60k benefit fraud
A self-employed welder who claimed he needed help to wash, dress, and eat travelled to Tenerife to visit friends while fraudulently claiming more than £60,000 in benefits.Brett Jones claimed disability...
View ArticleIllegal sub-letting brings heavy penalties
A "despicable" fraudster must pay £42,000 after illegally subletting her council flat for more than 10 years.Pfavai McNab, a hair and beauty salon owner from Southampton, received a two-year suspended...
View ArticleHMRC officer in tax credit fraud
An HMRC officer abused her position to fraudulently claim £18,000 in tax credits after lying about her marriage break-up. (h/t Dave)Tracey Griffiths used the cash for £3,000 cosmetic surgery, a new car...
View ArticleBenefit cheat hid wife's job to claim £23k
A Derby benefits cheat illegally claimed more than £23,000 over a three-year period by lying about his wife's employment status.Derby Crown Court heard how Goran Sarbast continued to receive both...
View Article£1m housing benefit fraud
A gang of housing benefit assessors who used dummy claimants to defraud the taxpayer of £1 million are facing jail.Menelik Cowan, 37, and six other council workers paid the cash into bank accounts...
View ArticleJudge: benefits system "cumbersome, overrun and creaking"
A judge has blasted Britain's "cumbersome, overrun and creaking" benefits system after a woman falsely claimed £73,000 in handouts. (h/t Dave)Joanne Mole, 47, raked in £44,500 in child tax credits,...
View ArticleSuspended sentence for £46k benefit fraud
A benefits cheat swindled over £46,000 of housing handouts — while boasting of her Spanish property business on Facebook.Louise Jones, 50, was claiming UK disability benefits for nearly a decade...
View ArticleLong delay in benefit fraud prosecution
Benefit cheat Mark Weston claimed more than £54,000 he wasn't entitled to - before investigators used Facebook to rumble him.The 58-year-old had received council tax discounts, housing benefit and...
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