{"id":624332,"date":"2026-06-06T11:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/624332\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T11:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:40:09","slug":"ipswich-benefit-cheat-who-hid-inheritance-told-to-repay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/624332\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipswich benefit cheat who hid inheritance told to repay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  When Sarah Pipe told Ipswich Crown Court that she had no idea how a payment of \u00a334,877 landed in her account or where it came from, Judge David Pugh said this claim was \u201cnot worthy of belief\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 69-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipswichstar.co.uk\/news\/25886376.ipswich-benefits-cheat-find-much-money-owes\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">admitted to continuing to claim benefits<\/a> between April 2019 and June 2023, despite having inherited \u00a390,000 weeks previously.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is now estimated that she gained \u00a357,222.43 from this dishonesty.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cYou weren\u2019t someone who regularly received tens of thousands of pounds into your bank account,\u201d Judge Pugh told Pipe. \u201cIt appears to me for reasons I don\u2019t understand you decided to lie to the probation officer and this court.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Despite having benefited more than \u00a350,000, it was determined on Friday that Pipe, of Ann Street, Ipswich, must pay back \u00a36,475.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Sarah Pipe told Ipswich Crown Court that she had no idea how a payment of \u00a334,877 landed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,4174,4175,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-624332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}