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Break dancing pensioner on BGT...

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Sue

Sue Report 13 Oct 2009 20:59

A breakdancing OAP who appeared on Britain's Got Talent has been ordered to pay back thousands of pounds in disability benefits.

Fred Bowers, 74, wowed viewers with routines that included a headspin - but it later emerged that he was claiming £50 a month in Motability allowance.

His benefits were stopped earlier in the year after officials decided he no longer needed the car subsidy - but now he's been told he has to return £3,000.

The Daily Mail quoted the former soldier, from Leicestershire, as saying: "I was overpaid, but it was a mistake by the social.

"I'm not a benefits cheat - I would never do anything dishonest. There was just a mistake, and I was getting more than I should have done.

"I always said I would pay back anything I was found to owe. I was worried I would end up in court, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen."

The paper says he has handed back his car and will have to pay back the excess he received out of his pension at a rate of £10.80 a week.

Amanda2003

Amanda2003 Report 13 Oct 2009 21:10

Silly old twerp ! ...........beggars belief really .

MarionfromScotland

MarionfromScotland Report 13 Oct 2009 21:15

Hi Sue

Silly old fool lol

Sue

Sue Report 13 Oct 2009 21:15

How on earth he thought he would not be investigated is beyond belief!

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MarionfromScotland

MarionfromScotland Report 13 Oct 2009 21:15

oop's he is not you lol

Sue

Sue Report 13 Oct 2009 22:16

Yes Mac, especially when I meet so many people in clinic who can't get mobility benefit!

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Maddiecow

Maddiecow Report 13 Oct 2009 22:22

I remember seeing him on TV!

I am sure he said his breakdancing helped to fix his gammy leg!

I dont know what to say really - glad hes paying it back but he will probably pass on before his debts paid.

Researching:
Powell, Chappell, Haffenden, Elliot, O'Shaughnessy

MissFitz

MissFitz Report 13 Oct 2009 22:31

He might need disability allowance if he keeps break dancing

Sue

Sue Report 13 Oct 2009 22:37

Drat! Shurrup Lynda I don't want my crip status questioned, what the hell would I do with all my stunning crutches?

lol

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Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 13 Oct 2009 23:42

LOL a back flip only looks graceful when its the Space shuttle doing it!!


imho

Bob

silly daft s*d how on earth did he not realise someone would twig what he was doing?

Researching:
me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

ஐ+*¨^¨*+e+*¨^¨*+ஐ Mildred Honkinbottom

ஐ+*¨^¨*+e+*¨^¨*+ஐ Mildred Honkinbottom Report 14 Oct 2009 07:01

I'm sure he entered a competition, or was on tv ages before BGT doing his dancing. Im sure I read it somewhere months ago.

Should have got a month in clink as well...I ean, fit enough to take the p breakdancing...fit enough to do time.

Sue

Sue Report 14 Oct 2009 08:54

I have a feeling Mildred that he was out 'clubbing' several nights a week doing his 'thing' before BGT.

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