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Carer, 75, in court for claiming regular payments a year after client's death

A carer who continued to claim payments a year after the death of a client they were paid to look after has been convicted of fraud and given a suspended prison sentence.

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Felicitas Ndavambi, of Westbourne Road, Penn, had been employed by a man who received a direct payment from Wolverhampton Council to pay for his care and support at home.

The man died in April 2022 but 75-year-old Ndavambi still continued to submit regular timesheets and claimed funding for providing continued care to him.

The fraud came to light in March 2023, when a council social worker discovered that the man had died the year before, but that the council had not been notified.

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