Man admits a £26,000-plus benefit fraud after failing to inform DWP of change
Carlisle Magistrates' Court heard 49-year-old Ian Andrew Waugh was also subject to a crown court-imposed suspended prison sentence when he committed a fraud offence between December 6, 2021, and July 4 last year.
During a short hearing this morning (Monday) in front of a deputy district judge, Waugh pleaded guilty to one charge: dishonestly failing to notify a charge of circumstances which affected entitlement to social security benefit.
Court papers show he did so by dishonestly failing to promptly notify the Department for Work and Pensions that his children were no longer residing with him.
This is said to have resulted in an overpayment of universal credit totalling £26,278.62.
In May 2022, Waugh appeared at Carlisle Crown Court where a judge suspended an 18-month jail term. The court heard a bitter Facebook fallout ended violently as Waugh subjected his victim to an attack with a crow bar which left him with a fractured skull and a head wound which was stapled.
Committing the offence of benefit fraud put Waugh in breach of that suspended sentence.
Deputy district judge Roger Lowe adjourned the case and requested that a probation service pre-sentence report be prepared before Waugh receives his punishment.
Waugh, of Millriggs, Great Corby, is due to be sentenced by a judge at Carlisle Crown Court on August 26.
In the meantime he has been granted unconditional bail.
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