Dawn Hardwick claimed housing and council tax benefit from Brighton and Hove City Council for a flat in Hove. But council officers became suspicious when she made a new claim last year and an investigation revealed she was not living at the flat and had falsified a letter from a landlord to make the application.
Hardwick received £12,095 she was not entitled to.
She was sentenced to eight weeks in prison suspended for a year by Brighton Magistrates after admitting eight offences of benefit fraud between 2007 and 2009. She was also ordered to carry out 100 hours unpaid work in the community and pay £960 costs.
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