{"id":51733,"date":"2023-10-27T14:33:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T14:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=51733"},"modified":"2023-10-27T14:33:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T14:33:36","slug":"benefits-scammer-jailed-after-claiming-250000-in-dwp-payments-under-two-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/27\/benefits-scammer-jailed-after-claiming-250000-in-dwp-payments-under-two-identities\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits scammer jailed after claiming \u00a3250,000 in DWP payments under two identities"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div id=\"attachment_48873\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48873\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48873\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Department-for-Work-and-Pensions-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Department-for-Work-and-Pensions-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Department-for-Work-and-Pensions-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Department-for-Work-and-Pensions-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Department-for-Work-and-Pensions-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-48873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">London England &#8211; June 4, 2019: Department for Work and Pensions office sign London UK<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A benefits fraudster has been sentenced to nearly two-and-a-half years in jail after falsely claiming \u00a3250,000 worth of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/finance\/personalfinance\/1806004\/state-pension-dwp-benefits-energy-price-cap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">benefits<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/benefits-scammer-jailed-after-claiming-250-000-in-dwp-payments-under-two-identities\/ar-AA1iWZ2u?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=LCTS&amp;cvid=1680a4f672a94ea1b986446e6b681ad8&amp;ei=15\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A benefits fraudster has been sentenced to nearly two-and-a-half years in jail after falsely claiming \u00a3250,000 worth of\u00a0benefits. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Department-for-Work-and-Pensions.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51734,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51733\/revisions\/51734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}