How can this lazy lowlife avoid Jail?

[R1Geezer]

Why are we so soft? Workshy scum like this should be banged up and have everything confiscated to pay for their treachery.
http://tinyurl.com/3yy8wr4

[DrFilth]

TAXPAYERS have lost nearly £2million to benefit cheats who work for the very Government department that runs the welfare system, it emerged yesterday.


The money was taken within the Department for Work and Pensions between 2004 and 2009 by staff who are supposed to weed out cheating claimants.

Shadow Work and Pensions Minister Mark Harper, who obtained the figures, said: “You couldn’t make it up.

“On their own doorstep, right under the nose of department bosses, staff are fraudulently fleecing the taxpayer out of nearly £2million.

“No wonder the department is losing nearly £58million a week in fraud and error when it can’t even get its own house in order.”

[Gromit]

Why wasn't a proper medical examination insisted upon before his money was granted?

[R1Geezer]

probably something to do with his ooman rights Gromit!

There was a guy in Cornwall doing a similar thing a few years ago, he got caught because he was in the local rag for winning Cornwall's strongest man! what a numpty!

[rojash]

Presumably Cameron would have said to him: "You are a good and honourable man.", if only he'd fiddled 40 grand instead of only 11.

[DrFilth]

this one didn't miss out

http://www.guardian.c...nefit-cheat-zahid-ali

[joeluke]

Probably the same reason this scrounger avoided jail

http://www.theanswerb...s/Question908570.html

[jake-the-peg]

Big fat hairy deal

You'll always get people trying to defraud the system you may or may not agree with the sentence but it'll cost more to lock him up, it won't deter others and he's not a danger to others.

What I really love is

Shadow Work and Pensions Minister Mark Harper, who obtained the figures, said: “You couldn’t make it up."

Don't they slip into the language of opposition quickly?

byt 58 million a week?

That's nothing compared to the tax evasion fraud going on - where are the armys of inspectors clamping down on that?

Where are the outraged papers decrying "cash in hand jobs"?

[Zeuhl]

In my yoof back in the 70s I spent several months working in a DHSS office on the outskirts of Liverpool.

We were interested one day to see a massive old 'banger' of a car (Ford Zodiac or similar) break down right outside our portakabin offices.
The driver got out and managed, single handed, to push this enormous hulk of a car along the dual carriageway while his companion got behind the wheel to steer.
He was making amazing progress when one of the staff recognised him as a claimant with several years of Invalidity Benefit under his belt for 'chronic back pain'.

He was invited in for an interview to discuss his miraculous recovery.
And yes, he did lose his benefit!

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[joeluke]

I think you'll find that a lot of the 'army of inspectors' have taken early retirement or redundancy. The last government shut a hell of a lot of tax offices to save money.

So even more fraudsters will be getting away with tax evasion now

It certainly pays to be self-employed, aka not PAYE but PWYL

Pay what you like

[Zeuhl]

///Pay what you like ///

LOL

Having our own businesses and some good accountants, we prefer to call it 'tax efficiency'

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[youngmafbog]

Yes nothing done to recover any of the brass. Typical of our weak judiciary.

And since when did cost come into whether or not to punish someone ?

I doubt very much he will even bother to turn up for the 200 hours community service.