{"id":486673,"date":"2026-05-15T21:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/486673\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T21:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:44:13","slug":"woman-68-accused-of-e73000-benefits-fraud-has-case-adjourned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/486673\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman (68) accused of \u20ac73,000 benefits fraud has case adjourned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dundalk Courthouse\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/19598bdb-b172-4970-a008-b30bf7dbd9af.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)\">Dundalk Courthouse<\/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)\">The DPP has directed that a pensioner accused of benefits fraud allegedly totaling \u20ac73,008.40 has her case tried in the circuit court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Rose King (68), Tobar Blinne, Killeavy, Newry, was remanded on continuing bail to June 10 at Dundalk District Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">No formal plea was entered. Her solicitor Frank McDonnell said that he had been served with 599 pages of disclosure and wanted an opportunity to read it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There are eight charges all allegedly committed at the Department of Social Welffare Offices in Dundalk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ms King is accused of, on dates unknown between March 12, 2019, and January 9, 2024, stealing \u20ac52,782 Jobseekers Allowance; and on dates between June 1, 2017, and June 18, 2018, stealing \u20ac12,996.70 Carers\u2019 Allowance and Respite Payment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The defendant is further charged with stealing \u20ac7,283.70 Carers\u2019 Allowance back payment on dates between April 25, 2017, and June 18, 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">She is also accused of inducement to accept a dishonest application for Carers\u2019 Allowance and for Jobseekers\u2019 Allowance and two counts of a similar charge in respect of a Means Test Review for Carers\u2019 Allowance and for Jobseekers\u2019 Benefit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ms King is charged with, on January 10, 2024, inducement to accept a dishonest application for a non-contributory State pension with intent to make gain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Funded by the Courts Reporting Scheme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dundalk Courthouse The DPP has directed that a pensioner accused of benefits fraud allegedly totaling \u20ac73,008.40 has her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,41270,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-486673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-francis-carroll","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116580782147439897","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486673","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=486673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}