{"id":58071,"date":"2025-09-11T20:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/58071\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T20:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:44:08","slug":"former-td-arrested-for-allegedly-claiming-late-parents-pensions-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/58071\/","title":{"rendered":"Former TD arrested for allegedly claiming late parents\u2019 pensions \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">A former TD has been arrested by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">garda\u00ed<\/a> on suspicion of social welfare fraud following an investigation by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/department-of-social-protection\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/department-of-social-protection\/\">Department of Social Protection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The ex-politician was arrested at his home and interviewed by garda\u00ed on Tuesday. He has since been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He is accused of claiming the pensions of his deceased parents over a lengthy period of time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is understood he is suspected of defrauding the State out of a significant sum of money by failing to report his parents\u2019 death to the Department of Social Welfare and of forging documents to allow him to continue to claim their pensions on a weekly basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The politician has not held office for a number of years. His arrest was first reported by The Irish Independent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cHe was detained under the provisions of Section 4 Criminal Justice Act 1984 and has since been released. Investigations are ongoing,\u201d a Garda spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The investigation into the alleged fraud is being led by the Department of Social Protection with the assistance of garda\u00ed seconded to its \u00adregional social welfare fraud unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former TD has been arrested by garda\u00ed on suspicion of social welfare fraud following an investigation by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[956,9,10,20812,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-58071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-department-of-social-protection","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58071","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=58071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}