Council tenant fined £100k & evicted for renting out flat

A council tenant has been ordered to pay a record £100,000 for sub-letting his central London flat through Airbnb as councils in the capital...

Benefit fraud OAP avoids jail

AN OAP who falsely claimed £23,000 in benefits has been ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work as punishment. Matilda Gildea previously pl...

Plymouth City Council fraud team saves £1.4m

Fraud investigators saved Plymouth City Council more than £1m in the last financial year. The small team dealt with 262 allegations, resul...

HMRC misses fraud & error targets

HMRC missed its target for reducing fraud and error in personal tax credit overpayments last year, the public spending watchdog has said. ...

'This is the largest case of benefit fraud by a single person'

An amateur actress master-minded a £750,000 benefits scam by hiding her father's death and faking illness for more than 23 years. (h/t D...

Woman who owned 4 homes fleeced the public purse for 4 years

A carer claimed nearly £30,000 in benefits in a four-year con despite owning four properties, a court heard. (h/t Dave) Corinne Taylor cla...

"Benefits bosses told me to ignore bogus claims"

She is a devoted grandmother who has spent almost three decades working on the front line of Britain's benefits system, driven by a desi...

Repeat benefit fraud offender jailed

A woman who wrongly claimed £16,000 worth of benefits has been jailed. Hayley Mercer previously walked out of court having been convicted ...

Eleven charged with organised benefit fraud crime

Eleven people have been charged in connection with an investigation into an alleged £500,000 benefits scam and theft from homeless people. ...

Benefit fraud couple didn't declare inheritance

A husband and wife fraudulently claimed more than £25,000 in state benefits by failing to tell the authorities they had inherited nearly £15...