Benefit cheat must pay back £10k
HESSLE: A benefit cheat has been ordered to pay back almost £10,000.
Diane Ransom, 51, of Boothferry Road, was also given a 12-month conditional discharge at Beverley Magistrates' Court.
Ransom admitted making false statements in order to obtain housing, council tax and income support benefits.
She submitted a claim in March 2009 stating that she was single and that her landlord was Tony Clisby.
Investigators discovered the couple were in fact married.
Ransom will also have to pay £400 costs, as well as £9,808.50 in housing benefit, council tax benefit and income support she received from March 2009 to February last year.
Andy Hardy, East Riding Council's fraud investigation manager, said: "This was a deliberate act intended to fraudulently obtain money from the public purse.
"Those who choose to deliberately obtain benefits dishonestly should be aware that it is only a matter of time before they are brought before the courts."
Comment: I cannot help wondering when expenses fiddling MPs and members of the House of Lords will be required to pay back what they fraudulently claimed?
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