A lottery winner has been prosecuted after falsely claiming more than £18,000 in benefits.
Ian Baker, from Stapleford, did not tell Broxtowe Borough Council about a £135,000 lottery win in April 2004.
He also failed to tell the council about three bank accounts in his wife's name.
Mr Baker must pay back the money he claimed in housing and council tax benefit between October 2002 and August 2008 - at a rate of £15 per week. It will take him more than 23 years to pay back the amount he claimed.
On his original claim form in 2002 he had made false statements about the amount of income he had.
Magistrates ordered him to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work in the next 12 months after he pleaded guilty to two offences, and sentenced him to 180 days in prison suspended for a year.
That's effectively £120 an hour as this benefit cheat will never pay us back. Ridiculous.
1 comments:
it took long enough to catch him,they should also check back to see he never told them his daughter also lives at the house,when she was out of work and claiming benefits she said she lived at her grandparents house so not to effect her mum and dads benefits,but she did live with her mum and dad and still does.£15 a week for 23 years is a complete joke,how about remove assets from them,he a criminal treat him like one...
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