Worker, 55, admits false claim
A 55-year-old Telford man has admitted fiddling £32,000 in benefits while he was working. A 55-year-old Telford man has admitted fiddling £32,000 in benefits while he was working. Christopher Morris carried on claiming income support as well as incapacity, housing and council tax benefit after he landed a job with Frisby Couriers, Shrewsbury Crown Court heard yesterday(Mon). Morris, of Delphside Court, Broseley, claimed the income support from March 2003 to June 2004 and the other benefits for a total of two years. Read the full story in today's Shropshire Star.
A 55-year-old Telford man has admitted fiddling £32,000 in benefits while he was working.
Christopher Morris carried on claiming income support as well as incapacity, housing and council tax benefit after he landed a job with Frisby Couriers, Shrewsbury Crown Court heard yesterday(Mon).
Morris, of Delphside Court, Broseley, claimed the income support from March 2003 to June 2004 and the other benefits for a total of two years.
He admitted three charges of dishonestly failing to notify a change of circumstances for benefits and two of making a false representation to obtain benefits.
The court heard that Morris was currently paying back the benefits at a rate of £15 per week and had so far repaid £650.
The case was adjourned for sentence to the week commencing July 21.
