Telford benefits cheat, 36, avoids prison term
Wednesday 2nd November 2011, 11:21AM GMT.
A Shropshire woman has avoided an immediate jail term after claiming about £37,000 in benefits by pretending to be a single mother, a court has heard.
Tina Haynes, 36, of Meadows Close, Trench, Telford, appeared at Shrewsbury Crown Court yesterday for sentencing where she was handed a 12-month suspended sentence and a supervision order.
Haynes claimed benefits for more than five years, yet her husband was named on the electoral roll every year as living at the address.
During her trial earlier this year she denied two charges of making a false representation – one to claim for housing and council tax benefit the other to claim income support.
She obtained £15,365 in income support by deception, £18,356 in housing benefit and £3,132 in council tax benefit.
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