Benefit thieves..quaking!!

[mrmcfister]

A mother who claimed more than ?30,000 in disability handouts after saying she was too frail to get out of bed was filmed working a 48-hour week running a team of cleaners.
Christine Whittle-Morley, 47, received benefits to pay for round-the-clock care after saying her mobility was so restricted she needed help getting dressed and washing herself.
But the mother-of-two, who also claimed it took her 30minutes to walk 14metres, had actually been working a 48-hour week for six years as a team leader for a cleaning company at up to 45 different sites.
Benefits investigators acting on a tip-off used CCTV cameras at St Helens shopping centre in Merseyside to film her using vacuum cleaners and walking over a mile a day as she swept corridors and provided training for other staff.
Liverpool Crown Court was told Whittle-Morley had at first legitimately secured the highest rate of disability living allowance in the 1990s after claiming on her forms she was in 'severe pain'.
She said she had to to be accompanied outside her home in case she fell over and that she used a walking stick at all times.
Whittle-Morley also declared she needed 24-hour personal care as she needed help with getting out of bed, dressing, bathing, using the toilet and moving around indoors.
She later claimed income support and incapacity benefit for herself and her daughter on the grounds she was unfit for work.
But she was exposed as fake last year when a tip-off revealed she had been working for the cleaning company since 2002. She had never told her employers about her alleged disabilities yet worked at a string of business premises.
Whittle-Morley - who has a previous conviction for theft from an employer - admitted two counts of benefit fraud totalling an overpayment of ?30,934.
Her lawyers claimed the benefits claims were not fraudulent from the outset and the court case had 'deeply affected' her health. She said she believed her initial legitimate claim meant she would 'be on benefits for life'.

What do you think this bit of shit she got for this?

Answer :80 hours unpaid work and a two month night time tag.

Nuff said then!

[Jonone]

McFister, look at the tax liability that Google avoided ... it was in the papers over the weekend and was estimated to be ?450 million. If you insist on sounding-off about 'scroungers' you should acknowledge other costs such as tax avoidance.

[crofter]

A: Shoot the fucker!!!!!furious!



OR

B: Get her phone number as my bedroom could do with a once or twice over and tell her to put on that French Maid outfit again.


YOU THE VIEWERS DECIDE!!

[Lizard]

She doesn't have the right equipment to 'service 'you Crofter, as for your bedroom, we are talking 'dynorod' and 'thermal nuclear protective suits' as for the maid's outfits, well, just lend her one of yours.

[max_tranmere]

As a taxpayer all my adult life (or even if I wasnt) I obviously condemn Benefit abuse but these people could get away with it much easier than saying they have something physically wrong with them. I have heard that saying you are streesed, depressed, have a bad back (but not so bad that you can't walk), are traumatised from an event a few years ago, and so on, is sufficient to get them to sign you off. I've only seen this on TV and read about it - not known anyone who has done it. The fakers who get busted are always the ones who say it is something physical - the guy whose legs are so bad he cant walk, and is then seen running a marathon and so on. They could get away with it if they said it was something non physical as the DSS couldnt prove they were bullshitting. This is something I would condemn, obviously, but they seem to ask to get busted when they say they are incapacitated in the way they do.

[mrmcfister]

Jonone
Agreed .But I know we are powerless aginst the big corportions and their expensive lawyers.People like her get right up my nose and our softness is a joke!

[Ned]

Benefit theft is nowhere near as widespread as the papers and govt would have you believe and the govt spends more trying to recover "stolen" money than it gets back. It spends roughly a third more on systems and paperwork on recovering the cash than it manages to claw back, so maybe the taxpayer would be a lot better off if they just forgot about inventing reasons why the country is fucked and concentrated its resources on providing jobs and proper training.

[justincyder]

45% of West Belfast is on disability benefit. One of the the biggest reasons for this is ' stress ' which prevents them from working apparently. Problem is how do you proved someone is not 'stressed'. thats the tricky part.

[crofter]

I can't help but notice a tiny amount of jealousy with that rather callous remark Liz.!shocked!

Simply put I fear that you are mega jealous that I have far more PULLING POWER than you and Dynofuckingrod put together ... put that in yer thermal G-String!!!cool!

[Sam Slater]

That seems an awful lot. Are you sure it's just 'disability benefit' or 'some kind of benefit'? And does this include pensioners that wouldn't qualify for work anyway?