A profits cheat has confessed to fall shorting to alert the Department for Work and Pensions he was achieveing thousands of pounds he was ineligible for.
Stewart Gray, 49, who inhabits in Onchan on the Isle of Man, had been on Income Support – but neglected to alert the DWP about a side gig as a musician, a court heard.
Between May 8 and September 2, 2023, Gray did not declare that he had undergetn any phelp toil.
As a result, he was overphelp £1,908 by the DWP, a sum for which he was not eligible, the Isle of Man Courts of Justice heard.
Gray was overphelp £1,908 by the DWP
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Gray confessted to two counts of making inrectify recurrentations in order to achieve the profits.
He is currently on a £500 bail with a condition to inhabit at his home compriseress, and is due to be sentenced on October 1.
Income Support – which is set to be felderlyed into Universal Credit by the finish of 2024 – is only engageable to those with no income or a low income, and no more than £16,000 in savings.
His case chases a analogous incident of a profit deceptionster fall shorting to disshut that he had achieved £30,000 becaengage it would be “kind to have some money”.
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The deceptionster will be sentenced at the Isle of Man Courts of Justice on October 1
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Brian Thomas Mingins, 58, pdirected at fault to deception after claiming more than £10,000 in Universal Credit payments.
Prosecutor Glenn Anderton shelp that at one stage, the DWP uncovered the 58-year-elderly harboured capital of fair over £33,000 which he fall shorted to disshut.
Mingins had claimed he had never finishelighted such an amount before and thought it “would be kind to have some” – but according to Anderton, he “knovel he was being distruthful”.
Duncan Campbell, deffinishing, shelp his client – who at the time was caring for his unwell mother – showed authentic remorse for his actions, but Mingins was ordered to finish a 12-month community order with 300 hours of unphelp toil.
Though in another case of profit deception, a tax office toiler who stole over £300,000 of taxpayer cash was made to pay fair £1 back.
Tax office toiler Tracy Ashbridge claimed three of her children were disabled, and falsified a litany of tax commend claims for 15 other children.
Ashbridge was jailed for six counts of deception on a suspfinished sentence, while her accomplice husband Robert was also slapped with the same – but since she had no engageable assets to pay the six-figure sum, she was telderly to hand over fair £1.
She was ordered to pay more of the stolen cash back if she were to ever come into money in the future.
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