Benefit cheat magistrate sacked

A magistrate who was jailed after fraudulently claiming almost £27,000 in benefits has been removed from office. (h/t Dave) Sandra Howell ...

North East authorities attack tenancy fraud

North East councils and housing providers are working together to help prevent tenancy fraud and the billions of pounds it costs taxpayers. ...

Woman in £36k benefit fraud

A Stockton Tesco worker illegally claimed over £36,500 as a single woman when in actual fact she was living with her husband. Mum-of-five ...

Benefit fraud & tenancy fraud in Cornwall

Cornwall Council’s fraud investigation team has helped with cases of benefit swindles worth more than £630,000. Since April 2018 the fraud...

And another light benefit fraud sentence

An "immature" unemployed father-of-seven from Stockton who dishonestly claimed more than £30,000 in benefits has been spared jail....

Another light sentence for benefit fraud

A former teacher stashed a £184,000 inheritance while pocketing state benefits. Grainne Furbank claimed three separate benefits, saying sh...

Serious benefit fraud brings slap on the wrist

A Reading woman who claimed more than £60,000 in benefits for care her disabled daughter never received has been given a suspended prison se...

Long delay in benefit fraud prosecution

Benefit cheat Mark Weston claimed more than £54,000 he wasn't entitled to - before investigators used Facebook to rumble him. The 58-y...

Suspended sentence for £46k benefit fraud

A benefits cheat swindled over £46,000 of housing handouts — while boasting of her Spanish property business on Facebook. Louise Jones, 50...

Judge: benefits system "cumbersome, overrun and creaking"

A judge has blasted Britain's "cumbersome, overrun and creaking" benefits system after a woman falsely claimed £73,000 in hand...