Unlawful sub-letting & the abuse of social housing Cornerstone High court overturns SPO and gives unprecedented UPO guidance PoplarHARCA v (1) Begum (2) Rohim [2017] UKHC 2040 (QB) “… it is not compassionate to allow profiteering fraudsters indefinitely to continue to
Seven housing benefit chiefs at three different councils ‘masterminded a 10-year £1m fraud by creating dozens of fake identities to pay bogus claims to’ London benefit chiefs ‘masterminded a 10-year £1m fraud’<style amp-boilerplate>body{visibility:visible;-webkit-animation:none;-moz-animation:none;-ms-animation:none;animation:none}</style> Council workers put the money into bank
If you thought the housing crisis was bad enough, the UK just lost its biggest funder of social housing If you thought the housing crisis was bad enough, the UK just lost its biggest funder of social housing The £1bn
Man Charged for Housing Fraud Offences Mole Valley District Council successfully prosecuted Mr Ian Day, a 58 year old man from Lingfield, for Housing Fraud offences on Wednesday 26 July 2017. Mr Day was found to have provided false information
Benefit cheat is jailed for two years after she claimed nearly £250,000 in handouts over 11 years by pretending she didn’t live with her partner A benefit fraudster who lied to the authorities for 11 years to cash in on
Bexley fraudster Babatunde Adu laundered almost £1million in a year using dodgy cards and dating scams A fraudster from Belvedere is behind bars after he was convicted of charges which involved him laundering almost a million pounds in a year
Mayor of London announces £1.7bn injection of cash for affordable homes The Mayor of London has struck a £1.7bn deal with councils and housing associations to build 50,000 new affordable homes. It forms part of his target to help fund 90,000 new affordable
Residents of one Truro estate have become victims of an insurance scam having been targeted by people claiming to live at their address in order to get cheaper car insurance. The scam was exposed when Georgie Carter received a
Continuing to Protect the Public Purse Following on from the success of the 2015 report, the European Institute for Combatting Corruption and Fraud (TEICCAF) published the Protecting the English Public Purse 2016 earlier this year. The report once again highlighted
Right to Buy ‘devastating’ social housing stock, new figures reveal Council homes are being sold off almost three times faster than local authorities can replace them, research reveals. Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to 72 councils found more than 12,000