Thursday, Sep 02, 2010
Not bad if you're going for a liar loan
Yahoo: Phoney beggar earned £23,000 a year plus benefits
With his £4,000-a-year benefits, the fake beggar made a total income of £27,000 - more than the average nurse, teacher or soldier.
Last night a spokeswoman for the TaxPayers' Alliance said: "It's a disgrace that he's only received a slap on the wrist for claiming benefits on top of his illegal income. Charlatans like this leave us all worse off."
Mr Terry told press outside the court hearing that: "I was never an aggressive beggar like the ones you see clutching on to a bottle of cider. People will tell you I was polite and never gave them any hassle."
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1. Crunchy said...
I would almost put this phoney begger on a par with certain MP's of the not so distant past.
Thin ice.
2. drewster said...
That's £23,000 tax-free; equivalent to a normal salary of £30,300.
To be fair, if he was "living on friends' sofas for most of the time" then I'd call that homeless. I wonder why he didn't just claim housing benefit instead.
3. gone-to-colombia said...
Might be a few more estate agents doing the same soon.
4. mken said...
An article about a banker being given a sentence would be more interesting
5. Ulfar said...
I don't understand why the taxpayers alliance are getting all riled up, he was on incapacity benefit.
His begging in now way conflicted with this he wasn't like others caught doing a strenuous job. He was homeless he had no fixed abode.
The only thing he has done wrong is beg, that is the crime. He can't declare this money to the social as it counts as immoral earnings and they can't look at it.
6. sureseam said...
drewster @ 1: AFAIR "sleeping on friends sofas" is understood as homelessness and the line in the sand involves not having a key to the place where you sleep.
It doesn't sound too bad however over any period of months or even years it corrodes the soul.
7. drewster said...
sureseam - I agree 100%. Sleeping on friends' sofas IS homelessness. I've done it for a few days in the past (in between rental contracts) and it's really wearing. Hence I think he has been treated unfairly. Yes he was receiving benefit, but he was essentially homeless.
8. the number cruncher said...
He is also probably suffering form a mental illness - that is why most people are beggars, as they cannot form proper social relationships. .
9. mrmickey said...
Good point mken, there seems to be more of this in the papers having a go at the people at the bottom of the dole scrounging pile while the biggest dole scrounging crooks of all are the banks who are left alone by the politicians to count their plundered loot.
10. Mh said...
Always easier to kick some one when they are down.
11. letthemfall said...
£27000. Did this man keep accounts then? Despite suffering from Tourettes, the Taxpayers Alliance (who should really call themselves Contemptforthepoor Alliance) duly froths over this story, which is probably exaggerated anyway.