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There's plenty of plumbers, taxi drivers and carpet fitters out there doing a ton of work for £10 000 a year as well, equally a preposterous notion and costing genuine taxpayers who are left footing the bill for public services.
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Evidence from a medical professional is medical evidence.
Are you claiming that all of the above conditions are easily faked to the point GPs prescribe medication, refer to specialists, etc.
I think not.
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So what irrefutable medical tests are there?
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Tracy Johnson is jailed after she was caught funding a 'globetrotting lifestyle' through benefits by claiming she was agoraphobic
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A window cleaner from Lancashire falsely stated he had agoraphobia so he could illegally claim more than £70,000 in benefits, a court has heard.
John Booth, 63, said he was unfit to work over a 14-year period due to various illnesses but was actually doing his rounds in Cheshire.
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Karen Trant was caught holidaying in the idyllic west Indian region of Goa, where she was also photographed riding a horse.
The 51-year-old pocketed disability handouts for 13 years by claiming she could not leave her home by herself, travel alone or go to unfamiliar places.
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A woman who falsely said she was disabled but was seen dancing at a wedding has been jailed for claiming benefits worth £260,000.
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She claimed the fraudulent "complex raft of benefits" between 2002 and 2013 based on being a single parent with poor mobility who was too ill to work.
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More than 10 years of it going on without being caught and being in any fraud figures.
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AN AMATEUR actress who stole £740,000 from taxpayers by conning the authorities into believing her dead father was alive and still eligible for his benefits has been jailed for nearly six years.
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The "sophisticated fraudster" also feigned dementia and mobility issues for more than two decades to steal money from the public purse, but was caught out when DWP investigators filmed her moving around and even driving despite claiming she needed a wheelchair.
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The overpayments in these benefit fraud cases heard at court in the last year add up to hundreds of thousands of pounds.
In one case, Recorder Patrick Harrington QC said: "Benefit fraud is rife and costs honest hardworking people a lot of money."
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In at least some cases, a claim that has been refused, will have been an attempted fraud but won't be in any fraud figures.