THIS is the mum, says The Sunday Mercury under a picture of an obese woman smoking, who swindled £43,000 in benefits after claiming for her two children – who had been taken into care by social services.
Victoria Butler, 41, should have informed the Department for Work and Pensions that she had lost her kids after being deemed an unfit mother.
How likely was that? Truly, in the real world, how likely was she to go straight to the DWP and ask for less money? Another example of the state sector working in compartments.
Instead, the mum-of-two netted the fortune by wrongly claiming family benefits, understood to include child allowance and income support, as well as carers allowance.
Butler, from Stourbridge, pleaded guilty to two charges of failing to notify a change of circumstances between August 2007 and May 2010 when she appeared at Dudley Magistrates Court last week.
She could now face a prison sentence when she appears at Wolverhampton Crown Court for sentencing on August 4.
Claire Beddow, prosecuting, said Butler had told police she had turned to benefit fraud after running into debt after her partner left her.
Defence solicitor John Davies also claimed his client believed her children would eventually move back home, so she had not stopped claiming.
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