A benefit fraudster who took more than £9,600 in benefits while living with a working husband has been given a community order.
Married woman Jade Heppenstall, 32, claimed income support and council tax benefit as a lone mum-of-two.
Evidence emerged that she was living with a working husband without telling the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
Prosecutor Joanne Hesse said Heppenstall was overpaid £9,638 over a 10-month period.
She had since repaid £3,037 to the government, Teesside Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday.
Heppenstall, of Sandringham Road, Park End, Middlesbrough, admitted two charges of fraud by false representation and one of failing to disclose information to the DWP.
District Judge Kristina Harrison gave her a community order with a year’s supervision and ordered her to pay £85 costs and a £60 surcharge.
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