{"id":90169,"date":"2026-06-03T08:35:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90169"},"modified":"2026-06-03T08:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:35:33","slug":"couple-swindled-630k-by-claiming-benefits-and-dodging-tax-while-building-monopoly-style-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/03\/couple-swindled-630k-by-claiming-benefits-and-dodging-tax-while-building-monopoly-style-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple swindled \u00a3630k by claiming benefits and dodging tax &#8211; while building &#8216;Monopoly-style&#8217; empire"},"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\"> < 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\/AA24FNw1.img?w=634&h=951&m=6&x=241&y=162&s=208&d=208\" alt=\"Kim Benstock leaves Snaresbrook Crown Court on Tuesday after being sentenced for benefits fraud\u00a0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A married couple swindled \u00a3630,000 by claiming benefits and dodging tax while building up a \u2018Monopoly-style\u2019 property empire, a court has heard.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/couple-swindled-630k-by-claiming-benefits-and-dodging-tax-while-building-monopoly-style-empire\/ar-AA24G07I?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a1fe0f2be1c4ceb9dee3257a31396ce&ei=22\">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 married couple swindled \u00a3630,000 by claiming benefits and dodging tax while building up a \u2018Monopoly-style\u2019 property empire, a court has heard.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Steve-Benstock.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90169","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=90169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90171,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90169\/revisions\/90171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}