Lying cowboy heat-pump fitters milked millions from green scheme

Lying cowboy heat-pump fitters milked millions from green scheme

Cowboy builders have been accused of forging signatures and lying to homeowners in order to defraud billpayers out of millions of pounds under a scandal-hit government home insulation scheme. More than £165m worth of public money is believed to have been claimed fraudulently under the now-cancelled scheme, which provided households with grants to make energy efficiency upgrades to their homes, including installing insulation and heat pumps. It l…