Woman who claimed she could not walk jailed for benefit fraud after 10k race
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/helen-green-green-cctv-crown-prosecution-service-b1282881.html
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
Woman who claimed she could not walk jailed for benefit fraud after 10k race
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/helen-green-green-cctv-crown-prosecution-service-b1282881.html
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
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*He added: “Helen Green wasn’t just burning calories at the gym, she was also peddling lies and our investigators caught up with her.*
I hope he put his sunglasses on, Horatio Caine-style, after that.
damn immigrants taking benefits, our hard earned money! oh wait…
I don’t for a second condone what she’s done but I find it wild that she got prison time for this when there are examples of paedophiles producing indecent images of children and people who’ve caused death by dangerous driving who are spared jail time.
Haven’t seen anything like this for a while. When I was younger there was always someone who was supposed to be in a bad way doing hod carrying or something similar.
Do you need to provide like medical info when claming this stuff, presumably signed off by a doctor?
Whenever I read stories like these I always wonder how these people do it, is the system so shit they can just sail through every guardrail, or are they just really good actors who can hoodwink everyone
Are we officially officially off migrants now and onto benefit claimants for far right outrage generation?
While I can’t say for this case, I think things will get dangerous for some people. I was told when applying for PIP to describe yourself on the worst day. Especially if you have a chronic illness and are fine some days.
I haven’t, but I could so easily have said on my worst days I cannot leave bed because of my health conditions. Would I then be getting jail time?
Well one assumes she ran the race. I see no evidence suggesting she can walk…
“you can’t outrun the DWP.” yeah, they had fun with this one.
Shocking when I know people who struggle to walk and have blue badges that are shamed as they “don’t look disabled” and as they can walk a little even if they have to keep sitting down they must be lying then you get people like this.
She should have run with a black square over her face like the other runners.
Idk man this just smacks of paving the way to scrap PIP with sensational headlines and sentencing.
7 months is insane when there are literal rapists, and DV perpetrators, paedophiles etc getting away with community service and fines
On the other hand, my mum who is 60 years old and still working full time (no private pension as she has always worked minimum wage and what she did manage to save she has had to spend to fund her mobility needs) can barely walk without having an asthma attack but has been denied PIP every time.
The whole thing is insane.
Did anyone find that article impossible to read via mobile link? What an awful website.
Jailed for *that*? When we apparently don’t have the room? Very sensible.