A FATHER who claimed carer's allowance for a child who did not live with him has escaped jail despite making the fraudulent benefits claim worth more than £20,000 because his wife had a vendetta against social services.
The 43-year-old man from the Hayle area, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had claimed child tax credits for his son since 2007 and then put in a claim for carer's allowance in March 2011, even though the child had been taken into care in December 2010, Truro Crown...
