Lottery winner carries on claiming welfare.

When will people wake up to this kind of repetitive scandalous abuse of our system.

"Michael Duthie won £250,000 in March 2010, but continued to claim almost £14,000 in Jobseeker's Allowance, housing and council tax benefits to which he was no longer entitled."

When I read your post, it seemed to imply that he was still entitled to it, but upon reading the article, it's clear that he wasn't.

And now he's in court because of it. I don't see why you're complaining?

Need I say any more. .

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9934289/Lottery-winner-continued-to-claim-thousands-of-pounds-in-benefits.html

This kind of disgraceful behavior should not be tolerated. His winnings should be used to repay welfare that he has collected over the years, and a prison sentence should also be passed.

Yet again, the welfare state has failed someone. Yet again we see another reason to start getting tough on welfare. Yet again we see evidence of people taking advantage of tax payers money.

When will people wake up to this kind of repetitive scandalous abuse of our system.

that it happned..... did you read that part?

So ****ing greedy

He's actually just very stupid, isn't he? Apparently the £250K "all went on the bookies".

In an odd way, you have to feel sorry for many lottery winners, they have zero ability to deal with large wins. Not that I would say no.

I admit, I didn't read the article, so I assumed he won millions like most lottery winners we see on tv. But if he spent all his money on gambling then he's a compete utter idiot.

It's quite funny that he apparently assumed that he could continue on JSA as he had gambled it away - "I gambled away the quarter of a million and I'm broke again" presumably doesn't come up often at the Job Centre when asked "reason for signing on".

imagine if he got away with that?

that it happned.....

Should be jailed, but no that would simply make too much sense.

Tosser.

Yes, it happened, but he was found out and charged. So people have "woken up" and acted accordingly. As mentioned, it is well known that benefit fraud occurs.

What exactly are you trying to say?

Fraud in a wide variety of forms will always happen. There will always be greedy people.



How do you feel about MPs expenses? I see little difference, even if many of those MPs didn't commit "fraud" as such (ie. do anything illegal), they just took advantage of an unclear and pretty unregulated system.

I admit, I didn't read the article, so I assumed he won millions like most lottery winners we see on tv. But if he spent all his money on gambling then he's a compete utter idiot.

It's quite funny that he apparently assumed that he could continue on JSA as he had gambled it away - "I gambled away the quarter of a million and I'm broke again" presumably doesn't come up often at the Job Centre when asked "reason for signing on".