Christine Drown from Nuneaton illegally claimed benefits of £44,503 over eight years while working at a pet store. She claimed incapacity benefit, income support and council tax benefit from 1997 on the grounds she was incapable of working due to ill-health. She has been jailed for a year and told to repay the money.
It was a tip-off that started the investigation and she was interviewed as long ago as 2007. Truly the system works slowly.
In 2007-8 Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council council investigated 421 fraud cases and took 52 people to court, including one person who illegally claimed £24,000 in housing benefit.
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