Michelle Cooper, from Basingstoke, received £19,009 over seven years after telling officials her partner did not live with her and her three children.
Her deception was exposed when investigators saw she had written on her Facebook page that they had in fact lived together for 10 years.
Magistrate David Nattrass told Cooper that he was satisfied that the offence was so serious the only suitable sentence was custody. He jailed her for 13 weeks but suspended the sentence for 18 months. Cooper was also ordered to do 250 hours unpaid work, pay costs of £389, as well as pay back the money she had fraudulently obtained.
"The reason I have suspended the sentence is that you are a first time offender, you delivered an early guilty plea and because of the impact on your children," said Mr Nattrass. First time offender? She had been offending for seven years!
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