{"id":60066,"date":"2024-05-31T08:12:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T08:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=60066"},"modified":"2024-05-31T08:12:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T08:12:18","slug":"inside-the-bulgarian-town-that-cashed-in-on-britains-biggest-benefits-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/31\/inside-the-bulgarian-town-that-cashed-in-on-britains-biggest-benefits-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Bulgarian town that cashed in on Britain\u2019s biggest benefits fraud"},"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><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60033\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Bulgarian-Gang-of-Benefits-fraudsters-300x73.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"73\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Bulgarian-Gang-of-Benefits-fraudsters-300x73.png 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Bulgarian-Gang-of-Benefits-fraudsters-770x188.png 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Bulgarian-Gang-of-Benefits-fraudsters-1024x250.png 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Bulgarian-Gang-of-Benefits-fraudsters-360x88.png 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Bulgarian-Gang-of-Benefits-fraudsters.png 1227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">L<\/span>ocals call Sliven, a small Bulgarian town in the foothills of the Balkan mountains, the \u201cwindy town\u201d. And for some of its residents, the wind has been blowing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/inside-the-bulgarian-town-that-cashed-in-on-britain-s-biggest-benefits-fraud\/ar-BB1nlKx3?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=2b4e8c4b561e4beabc64d8dc17353397&amp;ei=102\">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>Locals call Sliven, a small Bulgarian town in the foothills of the Balkan mountains, the \u201cwindy town\u201d. And for some of its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-60066","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\/2024\/05\/Silven.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60066","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=60066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60068,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60066\/revisions\/60068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}