Online Poker and Benefit Cheats
A 36 year old online poker player has been accused and charged with benefit fraud after it has been revealed that he was a successful online poker player. Alan Forsyth from Norwich was charged on seven counts of fraud, including council tax fraud and disability benefits after many years of suffering with ME.
After initially completing his forms claiming that he had no savings but at the time of his trial he allegedly had 6 bank accounts. He claimed that “He did start winning money and more accounts were opened. He was scared it would be backtracked to the original offence.”
Prosecution lawyer Yvonne Blake stated that “If you have the concentration to play poker to the extent that you can win $49,000 in a single day, you have the concentration to fill out a form.”
Forsyth’s solicitor said in mitigation “This is not a well man. He suffers greatly with pains and fatigue. He has no potential prospect of being able to work again.”
Is this deception, should or does this money need to be declared? Obviously according to the law it does as he was ordered to pay £1400 + costs lol
Your views please!!
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Well they have a legal dilema here don’t they, on one hand they refuse to accept that its a game of skill so you can’t be a proffesional at the game of chance can you, yet on the other hand people are proving just that by earning aliving at it. mind you his a bit of a cheeky bugger by the sounds of it,
The issue regarding his benefit entitlement wont be the “income” he earned from playing the game, its issue will of been the undeclared savings as any amount of savings exceeding £6000 will have an effect on your entitlement to various benefits. In fact savings exceeding £16000 will result in your entitlement to any Housing or Council Tax Benefit ending as this the the threshold level.
When his savings exceeded the £6000 and he failed to notify them he has automatically comitted benefit fraud and rendered himself liable to prosecution.
What a fucking cheek! How many punters actually make money at poker, or, any other form of gambling for that fucking matter.
Are all the people who lost fucking thousands of their hard earned and heavily taxed income going to be able to send their gambling records to the inland revenue to claim their fucking tax back?
No. I didn’t fucking think so!!
Thanks for pointing that out Bunny. I could see there is something slightly wrong about having 50k stashed away and still be claiming benefits. I was bored and just felt like having a rant.
Sorry about the bad language too. Don’t know what came over me!
Rage you are class man, no-one else i know could put his point across so eloquently