The Peters family from Manchester held down jobs while stealing more than £130,000 in welfare payments by claiming they were too ill to work.
Allan and Lorraine Peters claimed to be housebound and unable to walk, but when investigators went to their house they seized wage slips - in false names - and a snap of the couple, smiling and seemingly pain-free as they boarded a gangplank for a boat trip on a Spanish holiday.
Mr Peters and his son Garry were each jailed for nine months for benefit fraud. Lorraine Peters, her brother and another son all got away with non-custodial sentences - even though she claimed £37,500 in benefits compared to his £32,000.
The question also arises - how did they all get these allegedly severe medical conditions signed off?
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