BENEFIT-CLAIM WOMAN HAD pounds 61,000 IN BANK; Mum 'forgot' to declare money she inherited.Byline: By NICOLA ROWLANDS A WOMAN claimed council tax benefit, despite having pounds 61,000 of inheritance money in her bank account. Sheila Chubbs failed to declare to Sefton council two building society accounts containing the money. The 49-year-old was sentenced to 120 hours' unpaid work after pleading Asking a court to grant relief. The formal presentation of claims and defenses by parties to a lawsuit. The specific papers by which the allegations of parties to a lawsuit are presented in proper form; specifically the complaint of a plaintiff and the answer of a defendant plus any guilty to benefit fraud North Sefton magistrates heard how between January 12, 2004 and March 25, 2007, the Southport mum received pounds 1,926.46 to which she had no entitlement. Magistrates said her punishment would have been 180 hours unpaid work, but due to Chubbs pleading guilty at the first opportunity, the total had been set at 120. She will also have to pay pounds 345.43 costs. A spokeswoman for Sefton Council told the court: "Chubbs' most recent claims for her property in Hart Street were completed on October 10,2003 and June 8,2004. "On both of these forms, she declared only a current account with the Alliance and Leicester containing approximately pounds 200." After Sefton council had taken into account the income Chubbs declared and the amount of capital in the back account, she was awarded council tax benefit. The spokeswoman added: "As a result of information received by the council in December 2006 from the HBMS HBMS Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting (Manitoba, Canada) , a branch of the DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection concerned with data matching, inquiries were made by the council's BFIT BFIT Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology (Boston, Massachusetts) BFIT Before Federal Income Tax BFIT Battle Force Inport Training BFIT Battle Force Interoperability Testing BFIT Battle Force Inport Trainer into the validity of Chubbs' claim as it appeared she had received interest from a bank accounts that had not been declared to the council." During the hearing,the court heard how Chubbs has two part-time jobs while also caring for her daughter Joanna, who has spinal problems and is a lone parent lone parent n → parent m unique lone parent lone n → Alleinerziehende(r) f(m) lone parent n (unmarried) (= with an 18-month-old daughter. At a previous hearing, Nick Archer, defending, said: "The inheritance money was given to her after both her mother and father died in the same year. "Her daughter had taken ill and been in hospital and my client's mind was on other things. "She should have declared the capital and she knows that." Up to date, Chubbs has paid back pounds 1,500 of the benefit. CAPTION(S): GUILTY: Sheila Chubb |
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