BGT dancing OAP told to pay back pounds 3k; BENEFITS.Byline: ROD CHAYTOR THE breakdancing pensioner who was rumbled for claiming benefits for a bad leg after he appeared on Britain's Got Talent Britain's Got Talent is a British television show on ITV (also on TV3 in Ireland). Presented by Ant & Dec, the talent show premiered on 9 June 2007, and was broadcast daily with a live final on 17 June 2007. has been ordered to pay back pounds 3,000. Fred Bowers, 74, reached the semi-finals of the TV contest with his energetic dance routine, which included spinning on his head. But 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 was less impressed - because Fred was claiming pounds 50 a month in Motability allowance. Earlier this year, officials stopped the money. And now the old soldier, of Sutton Bonington, Leics, has been ordered to pay back pounds 3,000. Fred yesterday denied he had fiddled his benefits and said: "I was overpaid o·ver·pay v. o·ver·paid , o·ver·pay·ing, o·ver·pays v.tr. 1. To pay (a party) too much. 2. To pay an amount in excess of (a sum due). v.intr. To pay too much. but it was a mistake by the social. I'd never do anything dishonest. I always said I'd pay back anything I owed." Fred, who will take five years to clear his debt, is negotiating a spot on German TV. He said: "I still feel I have a lot of dancing left in me." CAPTION(S): RUMBLED Fred Bowers |
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