{"id":162933,"date":"2025-11-04T20:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/162933\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:07:10","slug":"couple-jailed-for-fraudulently-claiming-more-than-e114000-in-social-welfare-while-husband-worked-under-false-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/162933\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple jailed for fraudulently claiming more than \u20ac114,000 in social welfare while husband worked under false identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Dorina Turbat (41) applied for job seeker\u2019s allowance, the working family payment and rent supplement to which she was not entitledShe was extradited back to Ireland on foot of a European Arrest warrantHer husband, Cristan Turbat (39), worked for a construction company under his brother-in-law\u2019s name\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cristan Turbat and his wife Dorina Turbat (Pic: Collins Courts)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/76a14da3-3b88-4164-bf2e-766ab343b371.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Cristan Turbat and his wife Dorina Turbat (Pic: Collins Courts)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A couple have each been jailed for 18 months after fraudulently claiming more than \u20ac114,000 in social welfare payments by falsely claiming that the husband was not working.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Cristan Turbat (39) worked for a construction company under his brother-in-law\u2019s name while his wife Dorina Turbat (41) applied for job seeker\u2019s allowance after claiming that her husband was out of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dorina Turbat (41) applied for job seeker\u2019s allowance, the working family payment and rent supplement to which she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,23,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-162933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latest-news-ticker","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115493237454878304","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}