Benefit Fraud Weekly Review – 31 August 2010
Suspended sentence for Londonderry man.
Last week at Londonderry Magistrate’s Court a 50 year old man was sentenced to 2 months in prison on each of 3 counts, suspended for 18 months, to run concurrently. He had failed to declare his excess capital which resulted in an overpayment of Income Support and Housing Benefit totalling £11,465.42 which will have to be repaid.
At Belfast Magistrate’s Court a 33 year old woman was sentenced to an 18 month Probation Order. She had failed to declare work to the Department which resulted in an overpayment of Income Support and Housing Benefit totalling £26,503.00.
Also at Belfast Court a 30 year old man was sentenced to 80 hours Community Service. The man had declared he had not received original payments of Jobseekers Allowance to the value of £96.80 thus receiving duplicate payments. Investigations determined he had indeed cashed both original and duplicate payments. He was also ordered to pay £22 court costs.
80 hour Community Service Orders were also handed down to 2 men at Belfast Court. Both had been claiming Income Support and Carers Allowance and overpayments in the 2 cases totalled nearly £13,000.
Fines totalling £900 were handed down to 3 different offenders. All had been working and claiming benefits. Overpayments totalled £8,754.85 which will have to be repaid.
The total number of cases convicted through the courts in 2010/2011 is now 205
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