Benefit cheat fiddled £7,000 while working in a JOB CENTRE

A benefits cheat was caught out claiming £7,000 in taxpayers' money while working at a Jobcentre.

Nicola Ashcroft, 41, secured work as a jobs advisor in July 2009, two months before winning an appeal tribunal to claim income support. 


Ashcroft, from Bolton, Greater Manchester, had initially been turned down for the benefit in 2008 after being hospitalised for anorexia, and following the break up of her marriage.   More Read