9 MONTHS FOR pounds 40K SWINDLE.A BENEFIT fraudster fraudster Noun a person who commits a fraud; swindler who claimed more than pounds 40,000 in overpayments has been jailed. Peter Collier, of Briarwood bri·ar·wood n. Wood from the root of the briar. Noun 1. briarwood - wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes brier-wood, brierwood Road, Mossley Hill, was jailed for nine months for the four-year scam. Liverpool crown court heard Collier, 46, had been claiming he lived alone when in fact he had been living with his partner. The court was told that the pair had joint finances, and had been on holiday together. Investigations by the council's benefits department snared Collier, who must now pay the pounds 40,000 back. Collier was charged with two counts of dishonestly making false representations under the Social Security Administration Act and failing to notify the Department for Work and Pensions The Department for Work and Pensions (or DWP) (Welsh: Adran Gwaith a Phensiynau) is the largest government department in the Government of the United Kingdom, created on June 8, 2001, from the merger of the employment part of the Department for Education and of a change in his living arrangements. The judge in the case told him the theft was substantial, and that theft from the public purse was a serious offence. He was jailed for nine months for the housing and council tax fraud and four months for the income support charge, to run concurrently. |
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