Kevin Richardson, from Isleworth, was found guilty of defrauding Hounslow Council. He failed to notify the council that his jobseeker's allowance had ended, meaning he was no longer automatically entitled to housing benefit, magistrates were told.
Richardson was found guilty in his absence after he failed to arrive at court twice last year.
He appeared at Feltham Magistrates' Court, after being given a chance to take legal advice, and was ordered to complete 120 hours of community work, pay £500 costs and to repay the benefits.
- This blog isn't usually sympathetic to benefit thieves, but in this computer age it's morally wrong for the state to put this temptation in claimants' way. Computers have been able to send messages to each other for decades and it is the duty of the state to help people claiming money to keep within the (complex) rules.
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