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Taxi fraud man convicted





A MAN has admitted receiving £5,000 too much after creating fictitious receipts for taxi journeys.

Nicholas Page, aged 35, admitted fraud by false representation in relation to his Access to Work payments.

Worcester Magistrates Court was told that Page, who suffered from significant health problems including epilepsy and a heart murmur, was entitled to the payments if he used a particular authorised taxi company to take him to work.

However, when officials checked Page’s receipts, the amounts did not tally up with the invoices provided by the company.

Chris Hilton, defending, said Page had instead paid other taxi firms and his father to take him to his job at the National Grid but was unable to produce any receipts to back up his claim.

He said the £5,000 was not profit but money he had paid out to other taxi firms.

Mr Hilton said Page, of Meadow Walk, Honeybourne, Evesham, was made redundant in May.

Page was given a conditional discharge for two years and ordered to pay £100 costs.

http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/946 ... convicted/

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George Carlin

I used to take a guy to EON on Sherwood Buisness Park from Sutton on Trent 5 times a week there and back on the access to work scheme. He stopped using me because he got it cheaper from a local firm. I wondered why he wanted it cheaper because the Government were paying for his transport to go to work then back home again at night.

The above ^^^^^^^ explains it all now.