Eight in Co Derry plead guilty to fraud after claiming payments while still working in their jobs
All of the employees living in the North were able to claim the Covid payments after realising they did not need to have any proof of medical intervention for their claims. Instead, all they had to do was to log onto a National Health Service website and print off a certificate of self-isolation.Dozens of the certs were then sent by up to 34 employees on various occasions between March 2020 and December 2021 to the department to claim the illness payment.
Word of the scam spread when one employee realised he did not have to show any legitimate medical proof of isolation and told fellow workers of the loophole during their breaks. According to department investigators, the company for which the employees worked knew nothing of the scam and co-operated fully with the investigation.
The judge said: “I’m really not impressed. The Government went out of their way to assist families in need over the pandemic period and I’m really not impressed with this.”
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