By Elizabeth Hearst for AMLi
An Irish man who claimed pension payments for his dead parents over 33 years has been jailed for three and a half years, in the longest-running social welfare fraud in the history of the State.
Don O’Callaghan is believed to have received close to €500,000 in social welfare on behalf of his parents over 33 years. He was at one point receiving €700 per week in social welfare payments from the State.