article_snippet: A couple sent A couple children to a £32,000-a-year private school and rented a house for almost £2,000 a month while claiming £42,000 benefits, a jury was told today.
article_snippet: Couple accused: Sarah and Leslie Grant allegedly sent Couple accused: Sarah and Leslie Grant children to a £32,000-a-year private school and rented a house for almost £2,000 a month while claiming £42,000 benefits .
article_snippet: Prosecutor Tara Wolfe told Gloucester crown court Couple accused: Sarah and Leslie Grant had claimed a total of £42,500 to which Couple accused: Sarah and Leslie Grant were not entitled. '
article_snippet: While Couple accused: Sarah and Leslie Grant were in receipt of those benefits
article_snippet: Couple accused: Sarah and Leslie Grant were managing to continue to pay for Couple accused: Sarah and Leslie Grant children to go to Dean Close School in Cheltenham and to continue to pay for expensive child care and expensive rent,' Prosecutor Tara Wolfe said. '
article_snippet: We say Couple accused: Sarah and Leslie Grant received £19,000 pension credit, £19,000 housing benefit and £4,500 council tax benefit to which Couple accused: Sarah and Leslie Grant were not entitled. '
article_snippet: Money from those accounts that was not being declared was being used to pay personal bills, for example example expensive rent and school fees as well as for more day to day things such as shopping.'
article_snippet: Investigations into their affairs began when questions were raised about how Investigations into their affairs were able to pay £1,950 a month rent while receiving housing allowance of only £775 a month, added Ms Wolfe.
article_snippet: On trial: Speaking at Gloucester Crown Court (above), Ms Wolfe told Gloucester Crown Court the couple had claimed a total of about £42,500 to which the couple were not entitled .