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New York -
A New Yorker disguised as his dead mother allegedly claimed $115,000 benefits for six years. Disguised using a wig, nail polish and his mom's favorite dress, he pretended he was the old woman, cashed payments and collected rent subsidies on her estate.
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Mitt Romney said in January that poor women who stay at home to raise children should be required to work outside home to qualify for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits. He said that women should "have the dignity of work."
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Yesterday, it was reported that the European Parliament was planning to curb the bonuses being paid to bank staff, while a guest on a BBC news programme explained how benefit claimants are stuck in the poverty trap.
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The idea of "Right to Work" is often touted about in the media, and mostly is presented as if such places where that "right" exists are "ideal" places to be. What they don't say is just as telling, by omission, as what disinformation they do provide.
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Bolton -
In another case of benefit fraud in the UK, an unemployed mother-of-two, whose children had already been taken into care, invented a third child and received £50,000 per year in benefits. Her punishment? A nine-month sentence suspended for two years.
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The myth of the benefits culture is pushed by governments on both sides of the Atlantic because politicians and our over-paid economists are incapable of seeing the real problem.
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With the reverberations from the public union setback in Wisconsin continuing to echo across the country, a public union rally in New Jersey likened Governor Chris Christie to Libyan strongman Muammar al-Gaddafi.
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The Catholic Church in the UK is struggling to pay the £3.5 million bill it has been left with following the visit in September by Pope Benedict XVI.
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After it was revealed that over $22 million was paid out to dead and incarcerated Social Security recipients and that benefits will not be increased in 2011, the program reemerges as a question ahead of key midterm elections.
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Croydon -
A former Commonwealth Games athlete was given a suspended sentence and ordered to pay back money he collected in sick pay, after he was found guilty of defrauding his employers.
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A transgender widow of a firefighter is suing for workers' benefits.
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Why killing infants can benefit animals
A trial suggests that thousands of patients with Alzheimer's disease could benefit from staying on drug treatment - even as their condition worsens.
The government is defeated in the Lords in a vote on its plans for a £26,000-a-year household benefit cap for working age families.
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