Benefits cheat fiddles £17,000 to clear debts
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A mother from Gravesend who fiddled more than £17,000
in benefits to clear her debts has been spared jail.
Mum of two Julie Hills had claimed income support, housing and
council tax benefit as a single parent, but failed to tell
Gravesham council or the Department for Work and Pensions when her
boyfriend moved back into her home in Exeter Road.
The couple had discussed her benefits but decided she should
carry on claiming to help pay off some of their outstanding bills,
Dartford Magistrates’ Court heard on Monday, August 16.
Hills, 38, was told she could have been sent to prison had she
not pleaded guilty and begun to make repayments on the cash she had
falsely claimed between August 2007 and September 2009.
Instead she was ordered to carry out 120 hours of community
service.
Wednesday, August 25 2010
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