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A mother who won £95,000 on the television show 'Deal Or No Deal' has pleaded guilty to benefit fraud. Caroline Banana, 40, of Stoke-on-Trent, Sta...
MPs have raised fears that the government's huge welfare shake-up actually leaves the system more open to benefit fraud. A report by the Communitie...
Fraud is always a problem. Lying and cheating is wrong and society should certainly discourage it. But benefit fraud - people lying and cheating in order to increase the size of their benefits - is not a big problem. There are many problems which are much bigger, in particular fraud by government.
The current government's presentation of its policies to tackle a massive public debt is an object lesson in the effective use of the Big Lie. Pathologically opposed to any measures which might unduly affect the "wealth-creating potential" of the better-off, they are nevertheless determined to make massive reductions in public expenditure, and have targeted the Welfare Budget as a potential source of great savings.
Benefit claimants are being assessed by lie detecting technology in a clampdown on fraudulent claims by Southwark Council in South London. The tec...
A married couple have admitted to illegally claiming state benefits to maintain their son's private school education and prop up a lavish lifestyle. ...
BBC Rogue Traders presenter Dan Penteado was jailed for 12 weeks for council tax and housing benefit fraud worth more than £24,000 on Tuesday. The...
A convicted rapist who won nearly £5 million on the lottery admitted fraudulently claiming around £13,000 in benefits on Tuesday. Edward Putman p...
BBC Rogue Traders presenter Dan Penteado pleaded guilty on Tuesday at Bournemouth magistrates' court to illegally obtaining housing and council tax be...
Benefit cheats will be fined up to £2,000 without being taken to court under new powers from Tuesday, which the Government said will save the taxpaye...
A benefits cheat who faked his own death to wriggle out of fraud charges has been jailed for 32 months. Stephen Kellaway, 53, claimed £43,000 in b...
A deaf and mute woman who claims she was kept in a cellar and treated as a virtual slave for almost a decade has told a court of her new life away fro...
A 23-year-old glamour model, who admitted falsely claiming over £16,000 on benefits, has avoided jail. Mum-of-two Kirsty Summers was given a commu...
Ministers are planning to crack down on British people living abroad who are fraudulently claiming benefits, following the publication of figures show...
The chorus of voices in protest is growing. How loud will it have to get before we see some change?
A Widow Twanky costume didn't fool fraud investigators on the tail of benefits scammer and pantomime dame Paul Couchman. The cheat claimed thousan...
A Polish gang that trafficked more than 200 people into Britain in order to illegally claim £2m in benefits has been smashed by the Metropolitan Poli...
