Stephen Moss has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for fraudulently obtaining £28,769 in Housing and Council Tax Benefits from Newham Council while he was receiving an occupational pension from his former employer, Transport for London. The court recommended that that he should spend at least three months in prison before being eligible for release. But having taken his current financial situation into account, he was not ordered to pay costs or compensation.
So he gets to keep our money.
A woman who fraudulently claimed UK housing benefits while living in the USA has been jailed. Barbara Pryce, from Sutton, pleaded guilty to claiming over £7,000 of housing and council tax benefit for two years while she was living abroad. She failed to inform the authorities of her move, and continued to claim benefit for a council property she was not living in. She re-married in the States and had her third child, but only returned to the UK after the relationship had broke down.
htp: Dave
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