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benefit cheat take 2....... this time £18000

same paper same city / stoke on trent
same easy sentence / come too stoke take easy money and
laugh
£18k benefit cheat avoids jail




BENEFIT cheat Kerry Powell has avoided jail - despite illegally claiming nearly £18,000 in three years.
The 38-year-old, of Seedfield Road, Blurton, claimed income support, housing and council tax benefit from 1994.
The claims were at first legitimate as she was a single parent with dependant children and unemployed.
But she failed to notify the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Stoke-on-Trent City Council when her circumstances changed.
Prosecutor Amy Jacobs told Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court yesterday Powell`s illegal claims came to light when the DWP carried out an investigation into security staff working in the Potteries.
Powell obtained a door supervisor licence in December 2004 and, a year later, started working for Revelation Security. She earned £10 an hour and averaged between £100 and 200 a week, the court heard.
A search of her home led to evidence that she lived with her husband.
When interviewed in March last year she said she did not disclose the changes in her circumstances because she was in financial difficulties.
She was overpaid £17,978.40 over about three years.
Powell, who had no previous convictions, pleaded guilty to four charges of dishonestly failing to notify a change in her circumstances in relation to her benefit claims.
Stuart Muldoon, defending, said Powell only pleaded guilty on the day of her trial as she could not accept what she had done was dishonest.
"She received her door supervisor licence as a result of a course provided by the job centre. They assisted in her obtaining part-time work. She disclosed that.
"She then changed employment and was often working more than 16 hours a week. She accepts she should have disclosed it."
Mr Muldoon said Powell had not yet started repaying the money as he advised her to await the outcome of yesterday`s sentence.
He said that Powell was highly regarded by former work colleagues and police officers who she often assisted in relation to town centre disorder.
He said Powell`s husband was unreliable and did not always stay with her and there were ongoing issues in the relationship.
Judge Robert Trevor-Jones gave Powell an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, with 250 hours unpaid work and ordered her to pay £700 costs.
He told her: "The initial claims were not at all fraudulent or dishonest. However, the time came when your circumstances did change. You obtained employment and you began to co-habit and then married Mr Powell. The length of time when either one or both applied was three years.
"I am quite satisfied you knew full well you should have notified these changes at an earlier stage and you eventually acknowledged that yourself."

benefit fraud.. steel £16385 pay it back .......£3.75 a WEEK

saw this in the local paper

Single mother pleads guilty to benefit fraud


SINGLE mother-of-three Anne Maughan received a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to benefit fraud.
The 35-year-old, of Broadfield Road, Goldenhill, admitted failing to notify a change in her circumstances when claiming income support between August 2003 and August 2007. In that time she was overpaid £16,385.03.
Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard yesterday Maughan, who has no previous convictions, failed to tell the Department for Works and Pensions (DWP) she had capital in excess of the prescribed limits.
Iain Speed, representing the DWP, said Maughan had accounts with Britannia Building Society in which there was more than £36,000.
He said: "She was interviewed under caution in 2007. She said the money in the accounts belonged to her uncle who lived in Ireland and he used the money to buy houses and then horses."
The court heard the DWP accepted the cash belonged to her uncle.
Mr Speed said Maughan had started to repay the money at a rate of £3.75 a week.
Richard Littler, defending, said: "This is not the normal benefit fraud case.
"She was always entitled to income support. She did not disclose monies in her account that belonged to someone else.
"Those monies were always to be repaid to that individual. The only benefit she would gain would be the interest on that cash."
Judge Granville Styler accepted it was not the normal type of benefit fraud. He handed Maughan a five-month prison term, suspended for two years, with a residence requirement.

remind me why i go to work and earn a living :/

RE: problem with pc

hello i did the reinstall and the vista one went ok loaded fine and
everything went ok
went to do the drivers and utilities one and the thing would not load
had to in the end down load stuff from the dell web site
[ thankfully my nephew was in and newish what he was doing]
contacted dell on Monday and they emailed me the download i need to
get the laptop back to normal
only thing is nothing changed emailed dell again waiting for a reply

RE: got a e2save - o2 cash back deal beware

i thought about this but was just wondering if o2 would say we are a separate company
and your cash back is with them not us,
just got in from work [its 4.15] if i get up early enough will try cit advice see what they say
thanks for the info

got a e2save - o2 cash back deal beware

hello i had a e2save -02 cash back deal and it ended at the end of January
and to claim my last cash back deal i had to wait for o2 to send me the last
bill in feb.
well it never came like it normally does so gave them a ring,
to ask for it ,
no prob i will just send another i waited
and rung again and again and again x12
no matter how much i rang and explained how important it was that i got the
last bill still never came last call yesterday and was told it would take 7- 10 days
but its over the e2save time limit to send now so lost out,
i made sure that the last bill was zero as it was end of contract,
but i wish and do advise that if you over spend on the last bill then they have no
choice to send a last bill to you
gutted lost out on £63
don`t know if its anything to do with e2save and o2 part of carphone warehouse
if you do the cash back deals just remember don`t want others to miss out

problem with pc

hello i have a problem with the dell laptop i have
spoke to them and they sent vista and drivers cds
for me to reinstall but never done anything like this before
is there anything that i should look out for when i`m doing this
to notice if i`m going wrong or is it pritty much straight forward?
not that pc savvy as anybody who have read my posts in the
past would no so once again any help would be well taken

mobile phone cover.

hello i just had a phone from e2save and it comes with the
usual phone covers one for tec help other that covers for
stolen or damage and normally i would not bother with them
but i was just wondering if and what people thought of the
cover i have heard people have had them in the past and
when i comes to claim the exclusions were amazing,
every way they can get out with paying out they would,
apart of me thinks well for 6 quid a month not bad but the
caution in me thinks another 6 quid for nothing.
ever had to claim?
was it worth it or should i not bother.
thanks for your time

RE: black screen

hello again
just to comfirm i did the java update and now it works fine,
don`t know if this is what i did last time and not realised it but
i have had no probs since.
thanks for your replys

RE: black screen

i must be getting old and forgetting what i asked,
i have had a lot of probs with the dell laptop and ended up
doing a pc restore, when i started to put things back on
i went to play a video and could not get a full screen
and i thought then i`m sure i did this before but on a old
laptop and not on this one,
thanks for reminding me it gave a big stupid :)

all the best and thanks

This item was edited on Friday, 20th February 2009, 20:59

black screen

hello please help,
when i`m watching a video music or other and i put it on full screen
all that happens is i get a black screen and i can hear the music
but i have done what basic things i no to do, i`m with aol at the moment
and i have altered what they suggest to do but still a black screen.
any help would be readily appreciated.
thanks

RE: o2 broadband

THANKS for all the replys, i just got a email back off aol and my 18 month contract does not run out till 1st may so will have to wait till then, i asked the question because i thought i had about a month left so will have to wait a while longer, thanks again :)

o2 broadband

hello i`m looking at the o2 broadband and was wondering if anybody has it and
is it any good for reliability ,service etc
thanks

RE: Noisy Neighbours!

hello quick question ....
do your next door neighbours work in the week?
if so is it not possible to book a few days off in the week and well party till 6am,
even if it means put your music on full and go in a hotel over night.
it could back fire and not bother them and next time they party they might say
well we did not complain about you,
but they might just take a hint,

RE: £30 or not £30

phoned this morning and spoke to a young lad and asked for the £30 off, i said
consider that i have not had the tele yet can i have the money off
and he said i can not see why not i`ll put it back on your card
well pleased thanked him loads :)
42" lcd toshiba for £500 can`t moan :)

This item was edited on Sunday, 12th October 2008, 17:17

£30 or not £30

got a lcd tele coming on monday ordered it last tuesday, but since i ordered it the price
has dropped by £30
wife says leave it its coming on monday so prob too late to do anything,
its with empire direct but the save every penny in me says try to save the cash even if it means waiting another few days for the tele,
first time used empire direct so don`t know if i will have any probs
so would you try to get the £30 or think if it came on friday and i was happy to pay the 530 price then leave it :/

This item was edited on Saturday, 11th October 2008, 19:05

RE: right or wrong

i do agree with what bowfer put i didn`t no the guy but i understand about the leaving the kids behind thing.
was he in the right frame of mind when he did it well nobody will ever know...
like wise feel for the 2 kids .
the wife thing well.....................

right or wrong

my sister going to a funeral today for someone she worked with :(
she says every called him happy mick cause always happy no matter what,
well he committed suicide , she said it was because he found out his wife was
having a affair and when he asked her to end it she said no but still wanted to
live with him and kids ,
sister said he was gutted and could not except her with someone else
but in the paper it said LOVING WIFE
would you if you were his family stop her going to the funeral i put this to
my sister and she said she didn`t know what she would do,
can not see how you can be a loving wife and have a affair but still want
everything at home to be ok
odd one this i don`t suppose she new he would commit suicide. :(

This item was edited on Thursday, 9th October 2008, 12:59

RE: Effing Paypal

>:(
i`m having same problem with ebay/paypal at the moment >:(
i sold a phone for £60
buying said phone was faulty so wanted to return no problem i sent payment for her to return it, just waiting for phone now.........BUT
because she filed a claim, the payment she paid was put on hold .. no problem just wait for phone agree with claim i get phone back she gets her money.....BUT
END OF LAST WEEK I BROUGHT SOMETHING ON EBAY PAID FOR IT WITH PAY PAL AND NOT ONLY DID THEY TAKE THE £12 PAYMENT THEY ALSO TOOK £57.81
WHY....... I WAS TOLD BECAUSE SHE CLAIMED A REFUND THE MONEY SHE PAID SHOWS A MINUS IN MY ACCOUNT .SO WHEN I PAID £12 THEY TOOK £69.81 £12 TO COVER PAYMENT £57.81 TO BRING ACCOUNT TO ZERO,
when i complained and yes i complained i was told nothing they can do until claim sorted out as balance shows zero, and they said i SHOULD then get my money back but the idiot on the phone could not see my problem and could not see their was one or understand or explain why money was taken from my card without authorisation >:(

This item was edited on Thursday, 18th September 2008, 15:00

RE: please help to watch you tube vids + others on full screen.

hello again thanks for the replys
i have the latest flash and java,also tried the right click thing but to no joy,
i don`t know what i did but it does seem to work now but for only about 5 mins
then screen goe`s blank with sound ok, if i small it down the large again it goe`s
ok but again only for about 5 mins,
any idea`s,


can you tell i know loads about pc`s :) :) :)

This item was edited on Tuesday, 19th August 2008, 14:21

please help to watch you tube vids + others on full screen.

hello i just got a new dell inspiron laptop and when i`m on you tube i can watch a video
unless i put it on full screen,
i can hear sound but get no picture,
is there anything simple i can do so i can watch it or is there something wrong,
i have vista home premium if this helps,
thanks for your time

This item was edited on Saturday, 16th August 2008, 19:33

got a child born between 1986/2003 then claim tax owed to you

came across this earlier and you can claim tax credits that should have been paid to you,
its between £520 and £1040
go to www.taxcredits.org.uk

RE: wireless burglar alarm

thanks loads for the replies, we got a electrician in the family so no probs getting it fitted
for free apart from, i hate asking people in the family for favour`s they do things for free
be happy if took some sort of payment just the way we are, nephew fitted the new central
heating for us , new boiler/ rads/ everything we just paid for parts, did it for free no probs
we do things for people and never expect out back but we don`t like to just ask and expect it done for nothing, and if you offer it seems to annoy,
,

wireless burglar alarm

not long ago moved house and we need a alarm, not because high crime no
different here than anywhere else but would feel better when on holiday etc
and nobody in,
looking at alarms and see that there is a lot of wireless ones
but i was a bit concerned about the reliability of these if no consent power
so i was wondering how good are these,
i cannot see these been sold if not reliable but as anybody got one fitted
and what do you think,
thanks :/

RE: Any HGV drivers out there?

i work for the co-op and they have drivers that just past the test, i was out from driving for 4 years but had no problem gettting on with a class 2,
we have got the collage in at the moment doing N V Q 2 and if you only have class 2 you can go on a course and do the class 1 for FREE
look into this with your local job centre you used to have to be on dole for 6 months at one time before you could get the free test but now they do it for anyone who wants to , if that info is wrong forgive me but i was talking to the girl who was doing the NVQ2 and she was adamant you get it for free no matter what,

RE: Did you get the new JD Freebie?

Brubby if you send me your address i`ll send you mine,
if you want the poker dice you can have that as well,
but not to sell on ebay only if you want them your self, please be honest. :¦

This item was edited on Sunday, 16th September 2007, 13:03

laptop fan not working ?

hello i have noticed recently that my laptop is getting hot and was wondering is there anyway i can do a test to tell me if its the fan?
when i turn it on the fan kicks in for a few sec`s then stops,and thats normal,
but i never notice it again but i tend to notice how warm my legs get...
i`ve tried to listen for when it kicks in but i either don`t notice if it has or i have missed it...
any ideas and if you think its the fan are these things much and easy to fit?
thanks loads.. :¦

This item was edited on Thursday, 13th September 2007, 22:14

laptop fan not working ?

hello i have noticed recently that my laptop is getting hot and was wondering is there anyway i can do a test to tell me if its the fan?
when i turn it on the fan kicks in for a few sec`s then stops,and thats normal, but i never notice it again but i tend to notice how warm my legs get...i`ve tried to listen for when it kicks in but i either don`t notice if it has or i have missed it...
any ideas and if you think its the fan are these things much and easy to fit? thanks loads.. :¦

RE: Kate McCann to be named a suspect.

yesterday on the news they said we are now stopping in Portugal to clear our names,
2am news both are leaving today to fly home?
she`s in one paper with her story him in another ?
i wonder if they are getting paid for the stories and if so why cash in twice?
and if a fee is paid will the fee`s be put into the Maddie fund?
what ever the outcome i`m glad its not me,
if they are innocent they must wonder what the hell is going on, if guilty they must
be thinking are we going to be found out........

RE: Make up a lie about something that happened to you ??? ( go on !? You really want to ?? )

i wasn`t up the local fields today with the wife at 1.30pm and i didn`t look around in the middle of
cough cough and see 4 blokes trying to look at what we were doing,
and we didn`t get the hell out of there at 300 miles an hour :o :) :) :) :)

This item was edited on Thursday, 9th August 2007, 14:58

RE: sorry but another ebay question........

thanks for the opinion i just paid the bill :¦