article_snippet.sent: Raymond Billam illegally pocketed £15,000 of taxpayers' money after Raymond Billam said Raymond Billam was severely disabled due to back and knee problems.
article_snippet.sent: Raymond Billam admitted defrauding the Department of Work and Pensions by pocketing £15,066 through dishonestly failing to notify a change in circumstances which affected Raymond Billam disability living allowance.
article_snippet.sent: Chris Peace, defending, said Billam, who has four grandchildren, had worked as a contractor for Yorkshire Water for 16 years until Raymond Billam suffered a serious back injury in 2006 which needed surgery.
article_snippet.sent: Raymond Billam had claimed more than £15,000 in incapacity benefit when the Department of Work and Pensions Work and Pensions were tipped off .
article_snippet.sent: Billam, who was taking jobs as a self employed plumber by October 2013, accepted that Raymond Billam should have notified the Department of Work and Pensions Work and Pensions earlier that Raymond Billam was fit to work. '
article_snippet.sent: The allowance was a regular source of income and Raymond Billam had three children at home and it was very difficult to do without that,' Raymond Billam lawyer said. '
article_snippet.sent: It was difficult to wave goodbye to that when you have lots of bills.'
article_snippet.sent: A spokesman for the Department of Work and Pensions Work and Pensions said: 'Raymond Billam was very brazen about what Raymond Billam was doing. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Raymond Billam defrauded the Department of Work and Pensions .
  