Articles in Financial Abuse
Wirral Council is to increase repayments to vulnerable adults who under a “special charging policy” were routinely overcharged for their council accommodation. An extra £440,000 will top up a £245,000 repayment package which the Council has been forced to refund to residents. The move follows...
With financial abuse of the elderly and vulnerable becoming increasingly common, is forcing them to use online services, pin numbers and Paypoint in fact leaving them open to further fraud? And is the government drive to cut costs and deliver services for less actually robbing people of their...
Frail and elderly, ‘Frank’ relies on his daughter to pay his bills for him. He has given his daughter access to his bank accounts and she often takes some of Frank’s money without permission. Frank’s daughter justifies this to herself by saying she is just getting her inheritance in advance.‘Marie...
A Judge has branded a Lincolnshire couple “mean” and “nasty” after they raided the bank account of the woman’s 75-year-old mother while she was in hospital. Carol Brown was given a six-month supervision order and her boyfriend Peter Britteon was given a one-year supervision order and a three-month...
Urgent action must be taken to stop vulnerable people in Northamptonshire being ripped off by greedy care home workers, a Judge has said. Judge Richard Bray made the comments at the sentencing of a former care home manager who stole £11,000 from one patient over four years. Judge Bray said: “This...
A crooked care home accountant has been jailed for 32 months for stealing more than £300,000. Jenny Glanister, 51, stole £338,805 from disabled people and the care homes where she worked to fund a luxury lifestyle of champagne, fur coats and diamond jewellery. She admitted eight counts of theft,...
A pensioner was told that her daughter would commit suicide unless she paid a psychic thousands of dollars, police in the US have claimed. Tiffany Smith, of Hingham, Massachusetts, allegedly tricked the 69-year-old victim into handing over $7000 and an antique ring, telling her that something bad...
Older people are being left unable to afford food and fuel because they have been cheated out of their savings by people they know, reveals a campaign by Warwickshire County Council and Age UK Warwickshire. ...
People can now find out the previously witheld names of council employees and care organisations not published in the Klonowski report on Wirral social services. Wirral Council published the ‘key’ after council leader Cllr Jeff Green moved to have the information placed in the public domain. The...
An elderly woman was left facing eviction when her son transferred her home into his name to fraudulently obtain a loan. Nottingham Crown Court jailed unemployed William Tucker for 31 months after he used his mother’s £150,000 house as an asset to get a £83,000 loan. When he failed to make the...
