Ex-HMRC employee sentenced over tax credits fraud

An ex-HMRC employee from Dudley, who lied on her tax credits claims to steal more than £56,000, has been given a two-year suspended prison sentence.

Rebecca Gray worked as a customer adviser at HMRC’s Merry Hill office for nearly eight years, advising members of the public on their tax credits claims. She was arrested in March 2016 and immediately suspended.

HMRC investigators discovered that instead of being a single mum living at an address in Wolverhampton as claimed, she had been living in Dudley with her partner between July 2014 and April 2016.