A WOMAN who falsely claimed benefits amounting to £16,693 has been placed under curfew.
Jane Boden, 23, has also been ordered to repay the money to Warrington Borough Council and the Department for Work and Pensions.
She pleaded guilty at Warrington Magistrates’ Court to benefit fraud.
The court heard Boden, of Grafton Street, Warrington, claimed benefits as a single person when she was, in fact, living with her partner.
Between March 2005 and January last year she defrauded the council of £3,424 housing benefit and £547 council tax benefit and the DWP of £12,722 income support.
Boden was sentenced to a three month curfew order, meaning she cannot leave her home between 7pm and 7am. She was also ordered to repay all the benefit she had received, plus £100 legal costs.
After the hearing, Adrian Webster, the council’s benefits manager, said: “Benefit cheats are not just defrauding the Government, but their own tax paying neighbours and communities. With the new methods of data matching we are using, the obvious message to benefit cheats is – ‘you will be caught’.”
Fraud operations manager for the DWP Roy Paul added: “The public is fed up with cheats who steal money from the taxpayer when it should go to those in genuine need of help.”
Benefit cheat placed under curfew
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