A single mum who fiddled thousands of pounds in Benefits for six years was told by a judge yesterday to get ready for prison.
The Crown said that Dawn Bryan, 41, from Middlesbrough, pocketed £71,000 from false claims for housing tax, jobseekers allowance and housing benefit between 2006 and 2012.
She admitted at Teesside Crown Court that she failed to declare that she had been living with a man and that she had made false declarations denying it.
She pleaded guilty to eight charges of failing to notify a change in her circumstances for Benefit between January 2006 and December 2012.
Her defence counsel Rachedl Dyson said that Bryan pleaded guilty on a basis that her partner moved out in January and not in December.
Judge Michael Taylor told Bryan: “In view of the amount of money involved here a prison sentence is probable.
“Go and sort your affairs out.”
Bryan, of Mandale Road, Acklam, was given extended bail for a pre-sentence report and she will be sentenced on December 9.
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