Terence Low, an ex-serviceman from Silloth, falsely claimed £20,509 in housing and council tax support over a five-year period by lying about his two pensions. He was sentenced to a four-month curfew order. Yes, that's it.
He failed to declare both an army pension and an occupational pension from the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. The army pension was discovered by the National Fraud Initiative in March 2009. Investigations showed it had started in December 1976 and was still being paid into a bank account Low had not declared - so why did the data matching take so long?
Copies of bank statements also showed he was also receiving a second pension from the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Data matching hadn't picked this up.
Low agreed to pay the money back at a rate of £200 a month. His curfew order requires him to stay at home seven days a week between the hours of 9pm and 7am.
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