North London woman
gets manages £75,000 benefits rip-off!
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18th October 2008
£25,000 in the bank, yet a North London woman manages
to filch the benefits system out of £75,000! And, then she gets a
12-month sentence - suspended of course. The 'un-earned income' was made up of Housing
Benefits of £46,690, Income Support of £19,800 and of course,
council tax benefit of £6,557!
The lady from Harrow in North London UK, was told by the judge
that she had been "Thoroughly dishonest". by making these claims!
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Some 'sneak' grassed her up by letting on that she
had £25,000 savings in the bank! Without that tip-off, one wonders
if Harrow Council would have ever found out. £75k gone missing! So?
Well done Harrow.
In fairness to the lady, she has in fact re-paid
£55,250!
As well as the suspended sentence for this
benefit fraud, she is confined to her house with a curfew for 6
months - 7.00am to 7.00pm. Poor dear!
Meanwhile in the
USA - Oct 15th 2008
An East Waterboro woman who obtained
$2,878 (£1665.00) of welfare benefits by deceiving the Department of Health
and Human Services back in 2006 has been sentenced to three
months inside for persuading the government to give her welfare
benefits to which she was not entitled! In fact two years, but
with twenty one months suspended! There are new charges pending.
Basically she hid her earnings and work, whilst applying for
benefits.
If she is convicted of new criminal charges after her release
while on probation, she could be forced to serve more of the
sentence.
Attorney General Steve Rowe said "Dishonest applicants who seek
to defraud public benefit programs are stealing from both
taxpayers, who financially support the system, and honest
recipients, who rely on the support the programs provide."
