Bingo News

The UK Government have been cracking down on benefit fraud over recent years and they have just caught another benefit thief, who reportedly used bingo as her cover story. The lady in question, Jennifer Watson claimed that she was disabled and unable to walk without assistance and that her dream of attending her local bingo club would never materialise due to her disabilities. In total it is though that Jennifer pocketed just under £58,000 in benefit handouts over the years and whilst claiming income support and disability allowance she worked at both the Co-op Supermarket and Argos. 

The growth of online bingo in the marketplace has been fuelled by many different factors according to a report by the Earth Times. The smoking ban had a particularly huge impact at land based bingo clubs with many members reportedly turning to the game of online bingo due to this law. The game of bingo has transcended through generations since it first took off in a big way back in the 1970’s and technology has also changed the way that we are now able to play the game. 

In an interesting study which was published in the ‘Archives of Internal Medicine journal’ it stated that playing bingo and having an active social life when you get older can help to wade of the possibility of becoming disabled. Their findings showed that staying active reduced the risk of developing a disability by a whopping 65% and death by 40%.

The UK Bingo Association has got well and truly behind the bingo industry by launching their own advertising campaign ‘Backing Bingo’.  The bingo association are asking bingo fans to join their campaign to try and persuade the Government to re-set bingo tax duty back to 15% and therefore help to prevent even more closures of land based bingo clubs. A prediction has already been made that around 100 bingo clubs could close their doors for the last time due to this recent hike in tax and the race is now on to try and put a stop to this.