A WOMAN who fraudulently obtained more than £7,000 benefit has been placed under curfew by Warrington Magistrates.
Stacey Algie, 28, must not leave her home between 8pm and 6am for four months.
She must also replay the £7,489.19 she obtained from the borough council and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and also pay £100 legal costs.
Algie, from Bryant Avenue, Westy pleaded guilty to make false claims to obtain housing benefit, council tax and income support over a two year period.
The court heard she claimed benefits as a single person when she was, in fact, living with a partner.
Between June 2005 and June 2007, she defrauded the council of £668.49 housing benefit and £206.11 council tax and the DWP of £6,614.59 income support.
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.”
A WOMAN who fraudulently obtained more than £7,000 benefit has been placed under curfew by Warrington Magistrates.
Woman obtained £7,000 by fraud
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