Residents asked to shop benefit cheats

Mon, 16 Nov 2015

People are being urged to shop anyone they suspect of cheating the Island's benefit system.

Treasury says it often relies on information from the public to alert them to people who need investigating.

Earlier this month a woman from Port Erin was jailed for wrongly claiming around £64,000 - the Deemster said she was only stopped because someone "grassed".

MLC Bill Henderson has responsibility for social security - he says people that do this have to be stopped: