rsherdley published Benefit cheat sent to prison after claiming £90,000 in...

A 69-year-old man has been locked up for 16 months after he claimed £90,000 in Pension Credit when he had savings of more than £100,000.Thomas McKane collected more than £60,000 of the cash using a fake name on a birth certificate, Nottingham Crown Court heard.The remainder of the money poured into his account between March 1, 2010, and November 8, 2015, after McKane failed to inform the Department for Work and Pensions about a change in circumstances. The 69-year-old claimed..