One rule for them, another for the working class punter.
Benefits claimant fined for fraud
Once again the court has signalled that benefit fraud
will be dealt with firmly in a case at Dumfries Sheriff
Court this week.
Nicola Rae aged 30 of Mossvale, Lochmaben was fined
£400 following a joint investigation between the
Department of Work and Pensions and Dumfries and
Galloway Council.
Nicola Rae admitted that she failed to advise both
organisations that she was employed by a cleaning
company. This resulted in her obtaining Income
Support of £1667.30, Housing Benefit of £359.53,
and Council Tax Benefit of £127.67 to which
she was not entitled. She is currently paying back the
overpayment and in addition has to pay the fine.
Dumfries and Galloway Council takes benefit theft
very seriously. Although the vast majority of people
who claim benefits are honest, those who commit
benefit theft are picking the pockets of law-abiding
taxpayers.
The latest government estimate (2008/09) is that
£900 million is lost from public funds every year through
all benefit fraud. Fraud in Housing Benefit is estimated
to cost £210 million every year.
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'Twas ever thus.
I see that that Tory woman who let her daughter live rent free in a house that was paid for by us, although it was only 20 miles or so from her first house, has been reselected by the constituency party.
It seems that any amount of theft by the top people is allowed, but a couple of grand stolen by the working classes results in the full force of the law being deployed.
I'm still waiting to see Baroness Udder, or whatever she calls herself, in the pokey for theft, but I expect I'll wait a long time.
It makes you so proud to be british, doesn't it?
Tris, it's the fact that the local authority decided to send out a press release to name and shame this woman, who was working in the lucrative 'cleaning' sector.
Cleaning up other people's shit for, if she's lucky, minimum wage, doesn't compare to sucking at the public teat for a mortgage on a house you've paid off.
Heh, like the quote. "Sic a parcel o' rogues in four nations..."
Hey Conan, have you seen the latest dribbling comments on my Paul McBride QC post? Prepare to gaze in awe at the wonders of the Scottish education system and what it has produced.
I first thought "wind up" Monty...but you never can tell; are there many gifted banjo players in Muirkirk?
These ones are special.
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