Articles Tagged: benefits
Former Mum of the Year found guilty of £8,000 benefits fraud
A young widow who was once voted Mum of the Year has been found guilty of benefits fraud.
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Celebrity mums Kym Marsh and Karren Brady join the fight to stop working single mums losing up to £68 a week in benefits
Single mothers could lose up to £68 a week in benefits under plans to change the benefits system, according to Save the Children.
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Mum of ELEVEN says children are a blessing
Tania Sullivan is 37 and a mum of 11. The super-mum, from Hoo in Kent, appears on the Channel 4 programme 15 Kids and Counting on Tuesday (17 January) to tell her story.
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Non-working parents with 10 or more children receive more than £60,000 a year in benefits
Figures released by the government have revealed there are 190 families in the UK with ten or more children under 18 who are raking in more than £60,000 a year in benefits.
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Feckless father has 15th child - with two more babies on the way
Jobless Jamie Cumming, branded ‘Britain’s most feckless dad’ for fathering 14 children, has had another child – and two more babies are on the way with two more women.
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Mother 'shaved off son's eyebrows and hair for two years to pretend he had cancer'
A mother claimed £100,000 in benefits by pretending her young son was suffering from cancer, a court heard today. She convinced the little boy himself that he had the disease.
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The Semi-Detached Parent: Are single mums demonised by society?
Are single-mums stigmatised and judged by society? Last week, the singer Jamelia fronted a programme about Britain's 1.8 million single mums – of whom she is one – and branded it 'the club that no-one wants to join.'
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Family with 10 children on £14,000 salary refuse benefits
A young couple with TEN CHILDREN have told the Sun how they refuse any state hand-outs beyond Family allowance, despite the dad earning just £14,000 a year as a carer.
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