Mum who claimed £20,000 in disability benefits is caught running marathons
Mum who claimed £20,000 in disability benefits is caught running marathons
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Mum who claimed £20,000 in disability benefits is caught running marathons
Mum who claimed £20,000 in disability benefits is caught running marathons
Posted by Forward-Answer-4407
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Some people work a year for that, why bother when you can lie on a form 😒
Why the hell do they always included “mum”? Who fucking cares?
Make her pay it all back. People like this piss me off.
My philosophy is graft what you can but don’t complain when you get caught out.
One of my mates has been complaining for weeks about not getting paid hours they didn’t work from a previous job after they cooked their clock out times. It’s annoying mate, you tried it on and it didn’t come through… move on.
Makes you wonder how many more people like this are out there.
She got given 8 months for apparently a first offence, it doesn’t say it was suspended either. Seems harsh.
Of course it’s wrong but it’s a shame when ‘wrongs’ involving several hundreds of thousands to millions don’t get the same treatment by the courts. If it even goes to court.
>Paul Cliff, mitigating, said Morris was diagnosed with MS 19 years ago and the ‘severity of its impact ebbs and flows to a degree’.
I mean, she was diagnosed. She has MS, it’s not like she’s outright faking it. And it’s probably true that her symptoms vary, and that’s allowed under PIP. Infact most Citizens Advice documents about applying for PIP acknowledge this and advise claimants that when the form asks for examples of how your disability affects you, you give the worst case scenario.
Also for reference here’s a thread in r/MultipleSclerosis full of diagnosed people talking about the exercise they’re able to do, their reasons for doing it and the recovery methods they use in order to keep doing it. [https://www.reddit.com/r/MultipleSclerosis/comments/x9zgra/any_runners_with_ms/](https://www.reddit.com/r/MultipleSclerosis/comments/x9zgra/any_runners_with_ms/)
The department of work and pensions will be watching the upcoming Paralympics and taking notes.
I’m currently going through some health issues. I haven’t claimed PIP yet as I feel I can manage without it but on days when I am in severe pain I need lots of help and can’t even do basic things. As with all health issues it’s not going to be a daily thing and the level of pain or support you need varies but when it flares up it’s extremely dehabilitating. I looked into the PIP claims process and given the number of claims that are rejected on spurious grounds it’s understandable that people have to state the worse case or extreme scenarios since otherwise they will not receive what they fairly need in order to manage. Of course running marathons is a bit extreme but she has MS and it’s a life changing condition which only gets worse and there probably are times when she needs a lot of help and support so I can sympathise.
Great, better make sure I never take advantage of my good periods with my disability 👍 cripples dont deserve to have a life.
Always keen to know what their social media commentary on benefits thieves is, or who they vote for and why, or what they tell their friends to think about other people… I don’t know why..
She could at least have dressed up in a chicken outfit, silly woman!
Make her pay every penny back and charge her 20% interest. These people are scum. When she has paid it back, lock her up for a few years.
Why should I care about this? We have a Royal Family who claim orders of magnitude larger sums of public money.
Currently doing Community Service. There is a guy who gloats about not working for years flashing around notes in his hand. Must be getting way more than the average living wage worker. Loudly bragging about milking the system. Thing is we are literally cutting trees down and doing quite physical jobs. Absolutely no reason for him not to work. Then I’m applying for shitty jobs like rubbish sorting ect wanting to work can’t get Jack shit. Messed up situation. The whole system from job centre to benefits to restart program need destroying and rebuilt.
I mean good for her that as someone diagnosed with MS she has managed to be very active in spite of it.
>Between October 20 2020 to April 25 2023 she was overpaid £20,528.83 and competed in 73 races between May 2019 and December 2022.
But it’s obvious enough she was lying on her claim forms from the get go. Being awarded PIP is hard enough, a lot of people with genuine needs still struggle to get accepted for it. She went in knowing she’s physically capable of long distance running, and still made herself sounds entirely incapable of even getting around her house.