The most recent focused on a woman offering help filling out Attendance Allowance forms. She said she did this out of the goodness of her heart, but also demanded 50 euros plus the first four weeks of the benefits claim. The scale of the deception was uncovered when our team made a copy of the form Julie Potter completed on behalf of undercover war photographer, Peter Jordan. We found that it contained a string of falsehoods and exaggerations. Had it been submitted to the Department of Work and Pensions, officials would have been persuaded that Peter, who was due to climb a mountain the following week, was unable to wash or use the toilet independently, and could not be safely left alone for more than four hours. Julie said she had helped customers make hundreds of similar claims over the past decade, potentially costing the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Our reporting was published in the Sun on Sunday newspaper
The second focused on the tens of millions of pounds in UK disability benefits being spent overseas. For both articles we are grateful to the help and guidance provided by an unnamed whistleblower.
