British Politicians thieve millions in benefits yet a 73 year old pensioner loses his? TV dance man Fred Bowers age 73, loses benefits
A Leicestershire 73-year-old who wowed audiences by break dancing on Britain's Got Talent has had his benefit stopped.
Fred Bowers said the allowance he received for a leg injury has been suspended while the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) investigates.
Mr Bowers, from Loughborough, said: "I'm going to struggle on. They're not going to stop me from dancing."
A DWP spokesman said: "We do investigate and take seriously all accusations of fraudulent claims."
Yet we don’t take MP’s “Fraudulent claims seriously that have run into millions of pounds?
arctictern
Well said. It's typical of the burocratic mentality of our jobsworth Benefit Agency, however, the silly old bugger should have thought it through.