{"id":83070,"date":"2026-01-02T20:33:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83070"},"modified":"2026-01-02T20:33:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:33:04","slug":"benefits-cheats-who-stole-54m-ordered-to-pay-back-just-2m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/02\/benefits-cheats-who-stole-54m-ordered-to-pay-back-just-2m\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits cheats who stole \u00a354m &#8216;ordered to pay back just \u00a32m&#8217;"},"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\/AA1TsMaz.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6&amp;x=175&amp;y=103&amp;s=314&amp;d=172\" alt=\"Galina Nikolova and Stoyan Stoyan\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A gang behind Britain&#8217;s largest-ever benefit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/life-style\/life\/2152782\/new-year-scam-thousands-pounds\" 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}\">fraud<\/a>, who swindled nearly \u00a354 million to bankroll lavish lifestyles, have been ordered to repay only a fraction of the money they stole. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/benefits-cheats-who-stole-54m-ordered-to-pay-back-just-2m\/ar-AA1TsXTV?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=39a610de8a944f28c82b6ca7c9be8b32&amp;ei=14\">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 gang behind Britain&#8217;s largest-ever benefit\u00a0fraud, who swindled nearly \u00a354 million to bankroll lavish lifestyles, have been ordered to repay only a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83070","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\/Bulgarian-Gang-of-Benefits-fraudsters.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83070","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=83070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83071,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83070\/revisions\/83071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}