Gillian Peel claimed income support, housing benefit, job seekers allowance and council tax while she was working, Leeds Crown Court heard.
Peel, of Garden Terrace, Criggelstone, Wakefield, swindled Wakefield Council and the DWP.
The court heard Peel struggled financially and was left isolated and vulnerable during an on-off relationship with her husband.
Rob Casey for Peel said: "She has struggled with the remorse, regret, shame and fear of what might happen today."
He added: "It had been hard for her to face up to the wrong-doing and that is why she got deeper and deeper in the mire."
Judge Geoffrey Marson QC jailed Peel for 10 months.
Peel had admitted seven charges of benefit fraud totalling £36,432 between October 2000 and October 2006.
We are not told why it only came to court in 2009.
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