A young married woman has been given a suspended sentence after claiming that she was a struggling single mother of one, receiving benefits such as income support and housing benefit based upon her misrepresented lifestyle with her young daughter. Chanice Bowen aged 25 from Barry had married in 2013, but this had remained secret for... Read More

Lisa Annette White, aged 56, and her husband Andrew Mark White, also 56, lived in a secret seafront apartment in Kent and ran two cafes while Lisa claimed that she was actually sharing a council house with her mother in Eltham. After an investigation in 2014, it was found that Lisa was claiming benefits for... Read More

More than £1.7 million pounds have been stolen by housing benefit thieves in the Cheshire district of Halton, it has been revealed. The local authority has recently released figures that show benefit fraud has been prevalent in the area between 2011 and 2015. The shocking figures reveal that a total sum of £1,723,520 has been... Read More

In Burton, a 66 year old woman has pleaded guilty to two accounts of benefit fraud and has been sentenced to 12 months of community service. She is also liable to pay £181 in court charges and an £85 victim surcharge too. It was discovered that Marilyn Yardley had claimed more than £10,000 from the... Read More

Hertfordshire couple handed suspended sentence after £20,000 benefit fraud A couple based in Shenley, Hertfordshire, were this week found guilty of “thoroughly dishonest and greedy” housing benefit and council tax support fraud, amounting to £20,000. 37-year-old Ines Da Silva and her partner, Gasonu Agogo, 38, were each handed eight-month suspended prison sentences at Harrow Crown... Read More

Repeat offender riles judge with lies and luxury holidays A repeat offender from Hull has been given her just desserts by a judge exasperated by the luxurious holidays she took as a result of a five-figure benefit overpayment. Over the course of nearly 8 years, the 50-year-old mother of two, Amanda White, claimed tax credits... Read More

Greedy’ grandfather receives jail time for £53k benefit fraud A grandfather has fraudulently claimed over £50,000 in benefits by failing to disclose that his wife wasn’t working full-time. Michael Taylor, 65, was caught out after an anonymous tip alerted the Department of Work and Pensions, leading to an investigation. The DWP determined that Taylor’s wife,... Read More

Eurovision star avoids jail after £52,000 tax credit fraud Gemma Abbey, who was half of the Eurovision singing duo Jemini, pleaded guilty last month to submitting false tax credit claims worth more than £52,000. The Liverpudlian narrowly avoided prison and was instead sentenced to 30 weeks custody suspended for 12 months and a 12-month supervision... Read More