Benefits claimant pretended she was disabled

A woman who falsely said she was disabled but was seen dancing at a wedding has been jailed for claiming benefits worth £260,000. Nasreen ...

Councillor committed social housing fraud

A former east London councillor has been warned he could face jail for a decade-long housing fraud that was uncovered while he was in office...

Claimant said she was a single parent

A woman from Burgess Hill has been convicted of benefit fraud after failing to disclose, for two years, that she was no longer a single pare...

DWP nodded through fatuous claim

Read this and ask yourself, what does it take for the DWP to refuse a claim? A mum stole £15,000 of benefits by claiming her disabled son...

Mothers who pretended to be single get suspended sentences

A mother of three who scrounged over £50,000 in state handouts by claiming she lived on her own insisted she carried on claiming because her...

64 Birmingham homes recovered in fraud crackdown

Dozens of Birmingham homes have been recovered and hundreds of housing applications cancelled due to fraud, a report has revealed. It come...

Barrister claimed council tax support

A barrister who said she needed help paying council tax for 17 months earned nearly £40,000 in that time. Asma 'Sky' Bibi has been...

Benefit cheat will have to sell house

A businessman who pocketed thousands of pounds in state handouts while working is currently paying back his ill-gotten gains at a rate which...

Wolverhampton stops £700k of fraud in 4 months

Nine cases of tenancy fraud, worth around £695,000, were stopped by Wolverhampton Council’s counter-fraud team in four months. Illegal sub...

No jail for £64k fat smoking benefit cheat mother

A benefit cheat who shamelessly fiddled nearly £64,000 from taxpayers for more than three years has been spared prison - because she has chi...