rodmalcolm published Grandmother kept quiet about job while claiming benefits

A grandmother must do 50 hours unpaid work after wrongly receiving £4,608 state benefit by keeping quiet about her job. Margaret Bennett, 47, was not working when she first made a claim for housing benefit and jobseeker's allowance, Nottingham Magistrates' Court heard. But she failed to tell civil servants when she began to work in a retail job, gradually building up her hours and earnings, said Martin Hadley, who represented Bennett, of James Drive, Calverton. Read more: Police...