Friday, 31 August 2018

Personally, I Think Five Different Benefits Is Pretty Extravagant..

Carrie Anscombe, 38, from Moulsecoomb, Brighton, was handed a suspended sentence after a judge described her offending as unlawful and antisocial.
Anscombe was paid £58,721 in five different benefits she was not entitled to over six years.
Five. FIVE..?!?
Anscombe broke down in the dock when Judge Charles Kemp said he was not sending her to prison.
He said there was no evidence the money had been used to fund an extravagant lifestyle.
Plenty of evidence that she spent it on pies...
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5 comments:

  1. Stonyground31 August 2018 at 10:11

    So it's ok to be a thief as long as you don't use your I'll gotten gains to fund an extravagant lifestyle? Have I got that Right?

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  2. jack ketch31 August 2018 at 13:33

    She admitted four charges of fraudulently claiming income support, job seeker’s allowance, employment and support allowance, housing benefit and council tax benefit between 2010 and 2016.

    I doubt she was able to claim all 5 at the same time, as the article seems to suggest then the first 3 on that list 'cancel' each other out. The only ones she would have been claiming the entire time are the HB and CTB. Otherwise that list signals a fairly standard progression for someone, for whatever reason,who is unemployable. Infact she would have been forced to claim ESA or IS benefits by the Job Centre (makes their figures look better than hers if they get claimants off JSA onto ESA).
    The thing that saved her from prison is perhaps the fact there was no false claim for DLA/PIP. No fraudster worth their salt would miss that one.

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  3. jack ketch31 August 2018 at 16:47

    So it's ok to be a thief as long as you don't use your I'll gotten gains to fund an extravagant lifestyle? Have I got that Right?-Stony

    Yes.Hve you not been paying attention? Ancient Legal Principle of Common Law, namely: "No one likes a flash git!".

    :P

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  4. JuliaM4 September 2018 at 06:59

    "So it's ok to be a thief as long as you don't use your I'll gotten gains to fund an extravagant lifestyle?"

    Well, that seems to be the basis on which lots on 'charities' work!

    "No fraudster worth their salt would miss that one."

    It being easier to do?

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  5. jack ketch4 September 2018 at 09:54

    It being easier to do?

    No but it is a whole chunk of cash a month (£400+ ish at the top rates), which isn't counted as 'income' and opens to the door to even more 'goodies' (like Blue Badge, mobility car, reduced Road Tax, preferential treatment pretty much everywhere).

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