Big Bingo winner loses everything and wants benefits back
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 | Uncategorized
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We all dream of winning big when we play bingo and how the money would change our lives, and always when we bingo players dream it is always a change for the better. For one bingo winner however the advantage of winning a huge £50k bingo jackpot has not paid off, in fact the winner Cheryl McCann is now almost destitute with no income and without the likelihood of getting any either. Ms McCann, a mother of three children was on benefits prior to her win and had borrowed £20 from her friend to play, immediately on winning the big bingo jackpot the bingo Ms McCann claims she shared the winnings with her friend, leaving her half of the jackpot cash.
The remainder of Ms McCann’s big bingo win was spent clearing debts, buying new furniture, purchasing a car and going on holidays with her children. Unfortunately in the space of a year the bingo jackpot cash was all spent and Ms McCann applied to the benefits agency to have her allowances reinstated. The plight of Ms McCann however has fallen on deaf ears at the benefits agency and they are refusing to pay her any money at all. This has left the young mother with very few options to make ends meet, she has borrowed cash from her mother, sold the car and fallen behind with her rent just to feed the children.
Ms McCann now claims that because she is unable to receive any benefits she can no longer send her children to school as they sometimes do not have any lunch. Added to all the dramas Ms McCann has now been threatened with eviction as she has been unable to pay her rent . The sad story of the bingo winner who lost the lot and more has been told in many of the papers in the previous week, The Sun had many comments left from angry readers who felt that the woman deserved nothing from the taxpayer, others have been more charitable and stated that over such a long period of time the remainder of the winnings would have been spent on living expenses for the average person anyway.
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