A certain UK based Lydia Frempong who boasts on her website about her ‘extensive’ experience in the life coach sector and as a well-established entrepreneur with a PR firm has found herself at the other side of the law—-guilty of fraud.
The life coach pretended she was unemployed even though she was hired by UK TV network-Channel 4 give confidence lessons to its employees so that she could swindle £5,000 in false benefits by claims.
Lydia who lives at Surrey is as appeared on DailyMail for claiming more than £4,500 in Jobseeker’s Allowance and more than £500 in Council Tax Benefit, “despite a raft of experience as an events organiser and ‘confidence coach’”.
The Camberwell Green Magistrates’ court heard how Lydia Frempong scammed taxpayers out of Council Tax Benefit and Jobseeker’s Allowance, between July 2012 and January 2013, and the entrepreneur pleaded guilty to two charges of dishonestly failing to notify Sutton Council about a change in her circumstances, which meant she was no longer entitled to the benefits.