{"id":77864,"date":"2025-07-26T06:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T06:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=77864"},"modified":"2025-07-26T06:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T06:11:12","slug":"civil-servants-steal-1-7m-of-benefits-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/26\/civil-servants-steal-1-7m-of-benefits-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil servants steal \u00a31.7m of benefits cash"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1JhT4Q.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Department for Work and Pensions sign\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Civil servants stole \u00a31.7m in benefits meant for pensioners,\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/money\/care\/senior-care\/what-is-attendance-allowance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">carers and disability claimants last year<\/a>, it has emerged.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/civil-servants-steal-1-7m-of-benefits-cash\/ar-AA1JhN3c?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=9a15882adc95430bb1098a8dfdccf583&amp;ei=82\"> 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>Civil servants stole \u00a31.7m in benefits meant for pensioners,\u00a0carers and disability claimants last year, it has emerged.\u00a0 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-77864","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\/77864","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=77864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77865,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77864\/revisions\/77865"}],"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=77864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}