Man Faked Blindness For Years, Received Welfare Payments
If you’re going to pretend to be blind so you can get extra welfare money, don’t make the mistakes this guy did:
SAPPORO — A Sapporo man was arrested for fraud Monday after he claimed to be legally blind to get a heftier welfare handout for years even though his eyesight was good enough to permit him to have a driver’s license, police said.
Shinichi Maruyama’s alleged ruse was given away after police started investigating him when the apparently legally blind man filed a complaint with cops saying that he had been “run over by a red car.”
Police discovered that although 50-year-old Maruyama was receiving additional payments on his monthly welfare handout because he had been declared legally blind, his eyesight was actually good enough to have permitted him to pass the eye test when renewing his driver’s license in October last year.
