RAF officer found guilty of fraudulently claiming £83,000 in school fees.
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RAF officer found guilty of fraudulently claiming £83,000 in school fees.
See the link, the rather sad part comes at the end.
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news...driver-4036527
Jonathan Walker, mitigating, said that Healy, who admitted fraud, may have qualified for CEA had he applied truthfully for the money.
Because he looked after his boys for a significant period of time during holidays it is likely he would have been granted CEA, Mr Walker said.
Because he looked after his boys for a significant period of time during holidays it is likely he would have been granted CEA, Mr Walker said.
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news...driver-4036527
Flight Lieutenant Wesley Healy, 41, was on the first line of defence if ballistic missiles were fired without warning at both the UK and the US.
However a military court was told that he is now an apprentice train driver after his high-flying RAF career was derailed by top brass who uncovered his £83,000 scam.
Healy admitted claiming an allowance given to RAF families which allows them to educate their children in private boarding schools, despite knowing he no longer qualified for the lucrative perk.
Healy and his wife Tracey separated, which meant the newly single officer no longer qualified for public money to put his two sons through an expensive private education.
But just three weeks after their divorce became final, Healy applied for the cash and claimed they were still living together.
However a military court was told that he is now an apprentice train driver after his high-flying RAF career was derailed by top brass who uncovered his £83,000 scam.
Healy admitted claiming an allowance given to RAF families which allows them to educate their children in private boarding schools, despite knowing he no longer qualified for the lucrative perk.
Healy and his wife Tracey separated, which meant the newly single officer no longer qualified for public money to put his two sons through an expensive private education.
But just three weeks after their divorce became final, Healy applied for the cash and claimed they were still living together.
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25th Feb 2023, 04:37
this is demonstrably incorrect. There is a key threshold (probably somewhere in the million quid mark) above which you're not a criminal, you're a defence contractor....
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Still happening after all these years! You would like to hope people had learned from all the previous cases that hit the Media, and many others that didn't.
The OH was MoD Desk Officer for Allowances back in the days of Adastral House. Oh, the tales she could tell!
The OH was MoD Desk Officer for Allowances back in the days of Adastral House. Oh, the tales she could tell!
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after his high-flying RAF career was derailed by top brass
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Roughly how many postings were available to him in his specialist role which might have caused 'discontinuity' in his children's education?
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A slight tangent if I may?
Discontinuity is not the same as detriment in all cases.
Provided the parent[s] are posted in the summer holidays [and in my case I volunteered for every accompanied overseas posting thus], a change is as good as a rest. Our four offspring gained enormous life experience following the flag. Schooling at Gutersloh and JHQ was good in our three tours. They turned their noses up at boarding, did very well academically with science and medical degrees and had good careers before retiring on excellent pensions.
The one downside was a daughter who returned to UK a year before GCSEs to find "we do Spanish and Russian here" after her German and French!
Discontinuity is not the same as detriment in all cases.
Provided the parent[s] are posted in the summer holidays [and in my case I volunteered for every accompanied overseas posting thus], a change is as good as a rest. Our four offspring gained enormous life experience following the flag. Schooling at Gutersloh and JHQ was good in our three tours. They turned their noses up at boarding, did very well academically with science and medical degrees and had good careers before retiring on excellent pensions.
The one downside was a daughter who returned to UK a year before GCSEs to find "we do Spanish and Russian here" after her German and French!
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Why must some people always boil it down to an ‘us vs them’?!
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Cos we is iggorant enlisted riff-raff wot is expected to be devious, whilst you chaps are meant to be the noble backbone of the service, devoid of any and all character defects. Such as fraudulent behaviour or crawling through a lady officer's window uninvited.
Additionally, officers appear to cheat CEA more often than others.
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Additionally, officers appear to cheat CEA more often than others.
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They also missed out of the discarded childs shoe, to indicate there is a school nearby or that the story contains information about a school.
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It's a well known fact that CEA fraud is an officers' sport, as I'm sure your googling proved while searching for a case of the enlisted filth being caught
It would be so much easier if people just screwed the nut and didn't commit the fraud in the first place. Yes, it's terrible your marriage has broken down, but don't ruin it for the rest of us because of the perceived shame at having to take your kids out of a posh school. It's a great perk in a job that is having every other perk eroded slowly but surely (as I'm sure you agree Bob, having recently banged out?).
Yes, it's terrible your marriage has broken down, but don't ruin it for the rest of us because of the perceived shame at having to take your kids out of a posh school.
Having divorced when my kids were 10 and 13, this was also an issue I faced (keeping them in school, not claiming CEA). Thankfully I was well enough paid that I was able to keep them in their schools, whilst also paying alimony and child support! Very painful, financially, but worth it in the long run.
So, I sympathise but don’t condone.
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I'm sure many of us have the salutary tale of the perils of fiddling, but the most important lesson should be as far as the Service is concerned, falsifying a claim for ten quid will have exactly the same effect on career and prospects as falsifying claims for £83,000. It's not the amount, it's the act. We had a Sergeant-Major in Germany, who was to put it mildly, was a screaming knob. He claimed for DM300 worth of petrol to go to Bavaria over the Christmas break, forgetting he lived opposite the Pay Sergeant, the same Pay Sergeant whom he frequently gave a a hard time to, who also noticed he didn't leave his house over the Christmas period. The subsequent Courts Martial sentenced him to 6 months in Colchester Military Corrective Training Centre (The Army nick) reduced to the ranks, and dismissed on completion of sentence. All for 300 Deutschmarks (about £75 at the time).