The importance of housing fraud

CIPFA writes Housing is a fundamental service that UK local authorities have a responsibility to provide. Councils across the UK offer soc...

Light sentence for blatant big benefit fraud

A benefit cheat continued collecting her dead mother’s pension for nearly eight years in a £77,000 fraud, a court heard. (h/t Dave) Hilary...

Man sentenced for benefit fraud and obtaining a false passport

A man who cheated the state out of thousands of pounds in benefits and fraudulently obtained a passport has been sentenced. (h/t Dave) The...

Plymouth's worst recent benefit cheats

Shameless benefit cheats have fleeced the state out of tens of thousands of pounds with blatant lies. Disability claimants have been caugh...

Dog owner was benefit fraudster

A dog owner who claimed she could not walk fleeced £16,000 in disability benefits despite showing off her pooch at Crufts, a court heard. ...

Benefit cheat had money to buy house

A benefit cheat squirrelled away enough cash to buy a house while illegally taking £23,000 from tax payers. Bolton Crown Court heard how N...

Rochdale still owed £5m+ in overpaid housing benefits

Rochdale Council is still owed £5.1m in housing benefits wrongly paid to residents. The figure represents the total amount of money outsta...

Conditional discharge for social housing fraud

A former Crawley resident has been successfully prosecuted by Crawley Borough Council for two criminal offences in relation to council tax a...

Mother not jailed over £70k benefits fraud

A mother of three has been spared jail over a £70,000 benefits fraud. Samantha Butters, 36, pleaded guilty on the day of her trial to fou...

How Birmingham is tackling social housing frauds

This explores behind the recent revelation that sixty-four Birmingham homes had been recovered in a crackdown on housing fraud . Amidst a ...