Scots benefit fraudster ‘borrowed £15k for bathroom makeover’ despite owing £26,500 in Child Tax Credit
benefit fraud has started paying off the huge debt in £500 monthly instalments.A court gave Nadia Begley, 43, six months to prove she can afford to keep making direct debit payments from her bank account.Livingston Sheriff Court heard it will take her around four-and-a-half years to repay the taxpayers' money she fiddled by making false claims for five-and-a-half years.A sheriff earlier calculated it would have taken Begley 15 years to pay off the outstanding amount through the compulsory £150-£200 a month deductions the DWP was making from her wages.Begley shocked the court by revealing at a previous hearing that she hadn’t repaid one penny to the Department for Work and Pensions but had borrowed £15,000 for a bathroom makeover while