£90,000 for 200hrs work.

[peterperkins]

OK +18 month suspended sentence for a total pisstake and £90k of our cash.

He will in effect be earning £450 an hr for his unpaid work.

I presume there is some serious asset seizing etc going on as well.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-5...

[WonkeyDonkey]

And they say crime doesn't pay

[anonymous-user]

peterperkins said:

...

I presume there is some serious asset seizing etc going on as well.

...

I doubt that - 5000 quid a year was probably spent rather than accumulated. POCA seizures tend to occur when the crim has dealer bling etc.

[Terminator X]

He will have to pay it back Shirley?

TX.

[Short Grain]

Terminator X said:

He will have to pay it back Shirley?

TX.

At £2pw as he'll be unemployable claiming benefits??

What with this tt and the total waste of oxygen who spat at the ticket collector I fkin despair sometimes!!

Edited by Short Grain on Tuesday 12th May 23:11

[anonymous-user]

Both are scumbags, but the reality is, thankfully, that such scumbags are not all that numerous in relative terms. The underclass amounts to perhaps a few hundred thousand people out of many millions. They attract attention from media, police, courts, social services etc and they do cost the rest of us money, but they are not so numerous or so costly that the rest of us should despair and give up not being scumbags ourselves. Other types of scumbag, even fewer in number, cluster at the other end of the scale - big crims and global tax cheats who cost the rest of us money in different ways.

[paintman]

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2020/05/...

[anonymous-user]

It is not clear from the report at what point the scumbag got better so that his previously legit claim became dodgy.

[swampy442]

Short Grain said:

What with this tt and the total waste of oxygen who ALLEGEDLY spat at the ticket collector I fkin despair sometimes!!

Edited by Short Grain on Tuesday 12th May 23:11

Corrected for you.

Its so common benefit fraud, people sub letting council properties etc. I remember a story a few years back about a guy who couldnt walk was pictured on the front page of the local paper winning a weight lifting contest.

[anonymous-user]

I do not know the stats for benefit fraud. It tends to get reported a lot for obvious reasons. It is a very bad thing. Tax fraud is worse - it costs the country way more than benefit fraud does, but it isn't as hot a media topic, and tax fraudsters can be harder to catch than benefits fraudsters.

[Camoradi]

I can't ind a link for it, but my favourite story of this kind was the one about the DWP employee who one Monday morning found himself interviewing a person claiming incapacity benefit, who had narrowly outsprinted him at the finish of the local half marathon the day before.

The irony was that the DWP worker's legs were more knackered than the guy he was interviewing