{"id":682729,"date":"2026-05-20T09:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/682729\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:57:10","slug":"housebound-benefits-cheat-caught-at-gym-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/682729\/","title":{"rendered":"Housebound&#8217; benefits cheat caught at gym classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The DWP accused Green of falsely claiming \u00a342,013 in PIP, but accepted a guilty plea to a sum of \u00a325,244.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She had claimed her arthritis was a lifelong condition that would progressively get worse and said she could not walk for more than five minutes without the crutches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also told the DWP she needed help with washing, bathing, dressing, preparing meals and eating and drinking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mandy Tobias, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: &#8220;Helen Green pretended she had limited movement, but instead was a regular runner and active in gym classes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She did this for her own greed and lined her pockets with fraudulently obtained money.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The DWP accused Green of falsely claiming \u00a342,013 in PIP, but accepted a guilty plea to a sum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[64,63,538,137],"class_list":["post-682729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fitness","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}