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Loading ...Former Action 4 Employment (A4e) employee Elizabeth Orsman has been jailed for fraud with a total value of £15,833.
1. Benefit Fraud
A BENEFITS cheat who continued swindling money after she was convicted of fraud, and even made false claims when she was working to help the unemployed, has been jailed.
Elizabeth Orsman, 44, of Townfields, Sandbach, was sentenced to 49 weeks in prison after admitting falsely claiming a total of £15,833 in Jobseeker’s Allowance, Incapacity Benefit and Council Tax Benefits
The court heard she failed to notify either Congleton Borough Council or the DWP that she had worked for five separate businesses including Uttoxeter Race Course, where she was paid cash in hand, and Action for Employment in Crewe where she was a trainer helping unemployed people find jobs.
By working for Action for Employment, which is contracted by the DWP, Orsman was falsely claiming benefits while working for the Government department that paid them out.
She was jailed for seven weeks for each of seven charges of fraud, including making false statements and failing to declare employment, with the sentences to run consecutively.
Where do A4e get their staff? Does this add credibility to the A4e widespread fraud allegations?
Source: Crewe Chronicle
2. Double Standards
We reported recently that A4e were forced to pay back over £15,000 after they were discovered of defrauding the system.
As an individual, this benefit thief was guilty of defrauding around the same amount of money, in this case she went to jail for 49 weeks as she was a claimant. On the other end of the table, A4e and/or any of its employees involved in this fraud have NOT been prosecuted for it. Why not?
It seems no matter how many times fraud is exposed at an A4e office, unless it can proved to be part of a wider conspiracy involving A4e’s head office. It will just be dismissed as a rogue manager at one office.
The story in the Crewe Chronicle about the woman convicted of benefit fraud whilst working for A4e and others contains an error: It says she worked for the department paying benefits i.e. DWP. Which is a mistake, A4e ia a private company not a government department.
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1. Yes, that is the problem – please read the latest blog post – almost 2000 allegations of fraud and over 200 full fraud investigations in first few years of New Deal.
It is rather ironic how the DWP no longer discloses such information.
2. Yes, Well spotted I noticed that also. I think it means in addition to receiving benefits, she also received money from DWP as contracted out through A4e – I think they tried to word it as if she did a double fraud on the Government.
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